DVRacer
DVRacer's JournalThe nuclear effect in the Senate
Senate Democrats took the dramatic step Thursday of eliminating filibusters for most nominations by presidents, a power play they said was necessary to fix a broken system but one that Republicans said will only rupture it further.
Democrats used a rare parliamentary move to change the rules so that federal judicial nominees and executive-office appointments can advance to confirmation votes by a simple majority of senators, rather than the 60-vote supermajority that has been the standard for nearly four decades.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-poised-to-limit-filibusters-in-party-line-vote-that-would-alter-centuries-of-precedent/2013/11/21/d065cfe8-52b6-11e3-9fe0-fd2ca728e67c_story.html
We are all Underground now!
I was thinking about the name Democratic Underground and it is so relevant to where we are nationally and many places locally. We have a job to do once we dust ourselves off, run for office or support someone that is. It needs to happen at the local level city council, state house, dog catcher if it is an office that exists we have to have someone running for it.
I myself am studying what is available near me probably city council.
Never give up!
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