dailykos.com - 2/24/2009
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Aaargh! Here we go again! Reid's office is once again pushing back against the "make them filibuster" crowd, whining that Democrats can't make Republicans "talk all night". That's not the point of the filibuster. The point of making them filibuster is to paint Republicans as obstructionists, ...
huffingtonpost.com - 2/23/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
Hoping for a C-SPAN spectacle of GOP obstruction,
some impatient Democrats are urging Senate Majority Leader Harry...
Reid (D-NV) to call Republicans on their filibuster bluff. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) made a plea typical of the ...
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The Myth Of The Filibuster: Dems Can't Make Republicans ...
thehill.com - 2/23/2009
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thehill.com —
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on
Monday that the banking industry is “very close” to...
being stabilized and the nation's economy is starting to rebound. “We tend to talk about the negative. ... Things are beginning to turn and I think ...
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Harry Reid: Economy starting to turn around
lasvegassun.com - 3/3/2009
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lasvegassun.com —
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said
Tuesday that Republicans want President Barack Obama to fail....
“It’s very clear, they’ve made a decision they want President Obama to fail,” Reid said. Democrats are increasingly trying to ...
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Reid: Republicans want Obama to fail
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Harry Reid Deals With GOP Obstructionism Today-- DC Representation And Hilda Solis
DownWithTyranny! —
... Bush left behind to get them to declare it unconstitutional. It will be a lot harder to get them a couple of senators... like Wyoming has. Yesterday Markos over at DailyKos tried to drill some sense into Harry Reid's head about why it's crucial to make the GOP obstructionists actually filibuster and show the American people, viscerally, just what they are.
Democrats Successful in Beating Back De Facto GOP Filibuster on DC Representation
Firedoglake —
... Bush left behind to get them to declare it unconstitutional. It will be a lot harder to get them a couple of senators... like Wyoming has. Yesterday Markos over at DailyKos tried to drill some sense into Harry Reid's head about why it's crucial to make the GOP obstructionists actually filibuster and show the American people, viscerally, just what they are. ...
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The New Filibuster
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 2/15/2009 —
Kevin Drum raises an important point , namely that “The filibuster was never intended to become a routine requirement that all legislation needs 60% of the vote in the Senate to pass.”
Indeed, the filibuster was never intended at ...
About Harry Reid's Pet Project...
corner.nationalreview.com 2/18/2009 — Matt Yglesias has been on the warpath for days, accusing Republican lawmakers of "lying" about a "mythical" high speed rail project that Harry Reid has been lobbying for being included in the stimulus bill.(See here, here, and here.)
Ok, here's ...
Filibuster Fact of the Day
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/31/2009 —
One of my new pet peeves is journalists writing about congress as if it’s always been the case that that minorities of senators would routinely filibuster every measure they didn’t like. Simple logic indicates that this is false—it ...
The debate over filibuster reform
washingtonmonthly.com 2/19/2009 — THE DEBATE OVER FILIBUSTER REFORM.... There's been some good discussion over the last several days about the Senate filibuster and whether the process should be reformed. It seems, however, that some of participants have been talking past one another. ...
Time to reform the filibuster
washingtonmonthly.com 2/15/2009 — TIME TO REFORM THE FILIBUSTER.... One of the striking aspects of the political process on the Hill is how quickly everyone has adapted to a once-rare tactic becoming routine. Senate filibusters used to be exceedingly rare -- a dramatic challenge...
End the Filibuster? Careful What You Wish For!
themoderatevoice.com 2/17/2009 — A short note on Steve Benen’s righteous indignation over at The Washington Monthly :
TIME TO REFORM THE FILIBUSTER …. One of the striking aspects of the political process on the Hill is how quickly everyone has adapted to a once-rare ...
Christmas
bamapachyderm.com 12/25/2008 — A cold wind blasted up the nearly empty streets of the city. Its icy breath crushing anyone in its path. This cold spell had claimed many lives and Travis waited to be its next victim. He lay in the alley just off the street corner waiting for death. ...
On Making Mitch McConnell Wet His Pants
fivethirtyeight.com 12/15/2008 — User B.R. writes in: In your discussion of the Bayh coalition today, you used the usual 60 vote marker as the line to break filibusters. But why is that all that folks mention? I ask because everyone (media and blogs alike) are treating the filibuster ...
GOP May Target Use of Filibuster (washingtonpost.com)
washingtonpost.com 3/4/2009 — As speculation mounts that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist will step down from the Supreme Court soon because of thyroid cancer, Senate Republican leaders are preparing for a showdown to keep Democrats from blocking President Bush's judicial ...
Dems to GOP: Stop being Party of 'No' —
First Read 2/25/2009
From NBC's Ken Strickland Senate Democrats are echoing President Obama 's call for bipartisanship in addressing the nation's economic woes. Their remarks come hours after Obama's speech to Congress and a couple of weeks after Congress ...
2010: Guns blazin' —
First Read 2/27/2009
NEW YORK: "Attorney General Eric Holder’s push for the renewal of the assault weapon ban has put Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) between a rock and a hard place," The Hill reports. But "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will join Speaker ...
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