Blog Running – ‘Mitch McConnell’s problem: How can he threaten to obstruct the Senate even more’?
This was a little over a year ago…
‘This, to Democrats, is the real problem: Republicans don’t really object to the nominees. They object to government working well under the Obama administration, and they’ve come up with a strategy to stop it from happening’.
‘Filibuster reform needs to come with big gains in order to be worth such high costs’.
‘And so, historically, the Senate only considers major changes when the minority is obstructing something the majority really, really cares about’.
‘In 1917, it was a law that was a prelude to entering World War I. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, it was civil rights’.
‘What’s so odd and interesting about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s threats to eliminate the filibuster on executive-branch nominees is that the impetus is the exact opposite: The majority is considering rules changes precisely because there’s nothing more the minority can obstruct that they really, really care about’.
‘These aren’t usual times in the Senate’.
‘So far as Reid is concerned, Republicans have already killed pretty much everything else the Democrats might want to do’.
‘When he’s been confronted with the argument that Republicans might bring everything to a stop if Democrats change the rules, I’m told Reid’s reply is sharp: “And that would be different how?”
‘Consider the record’.
‘Republicans abandoned a budget deal in favor of the mess that is sequestration’.
‘Gun control failed’.
‘Student loan rates doubled’.
‘Republicans are promising another debt-ceiling showdown’.
‘And now immigration looks unlikely to make it through the House’.
‘What exactly is left that Democrats want to get done and Republicans are likely to work with them to finish’?
‘This is the problem for Senate Republicans right now: The intensity of their obstruction has cut their leverage. Increasingly, Senate Democrats are coming to the conclusion that there’s no way for President Obama to have a successful second term working through Congress. Republicans, in their view, are simply too reflexively opposed to anything the president wants to do’.
From : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/11/mitch-mcconnells-problem-how-can-he-threaten-to-obstruct-the-senate-even-more/
The Last Of The Millenniums 
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I’ve reached the conclusion that, even though my ideology is liberal, those that have been elected are the same … they aren’t doing anything worth the $$ they are earning …. and will earn till they die!! Taxpayers …. clean house NOvember ….
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“They object to government working well under the Obama administration, and they’ve come up with a strategy to stop it from happening’.”
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