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Reid Again HINTS At Changing Rules Amid GOP Filibuster
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Like watching paint dry!
JUST DO IT!!!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Tuesday threatened to revisit the Senate rules amid the latest Republican filibuster — his second such threat this month. While the Senate waits to wrap up passage of a stopgap bill to fund the government, Democratic leaders want to begin debate on the budget resolution. But Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) is blocking that unless Reid agrees to vote on his sequester amendment, which Reid won’t do because Democratic leaders don’t want to replace the automatic cuts in patchwork measures. So they’ll have to wait out the delays and finish the stopgap bill before moving on to the budget.
“It is things like that that will cause the Senate to have to reassess all the rules because right now they accomplish so little,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “I’m disappointed.” It’s an idle threat for now because there’s little indication that Democratic leaders are willing to reignite another painful filibuster reform battle after the last one ended with a whimper this January. Nor do they want to raise expectations for changing the rules mid-session. But the many GOP filibusters since the rules change have left Democrats deeply frustrated.
Reid’s remarks were backed up by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the author of the Democrats’ budget, who also took to the floor late Tuesday to bash Republicans for stalling. Democratic aides privately claim the GOP-enforced delays reflect their unpreparedness for the budget process — while Dems believe they’ve united their caucus around the Murray budget. The majority leader continued his criticism of Republican delays on Wednesday. “Republicans were desperate, they said, to have a budget debate. Republicans were desperate for an amendment vote-a-rama,” Reid said in a morning floor speech. “So I was amazed yesterday — I mean amazed, flabbergasted, stunned — when Republicans blocked attempts to begin debate on the budget resolution.”
Moran refused to back down after Reid’s remarks and again demanded a vote on his measure, which would mitigate the sequester’s cuts to air traffic control towers. He claimed 26 cosponsoring senators, many of them Democrats.
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/harry-reid-filibuster-rules-budget.php?ref=fpa
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They want the country to FAIL, as they have so often stated, so they can then 'blame' it on Obama. They are driven solely by hate and fear, and are willingly crapping all over America and the mandate of the voters in other to bring the country down. Change the rules now, for the sake of America.
Where IS the fainting couch?
