Of course he does. He supports any effort to end any impediment to his power.
“The President has said many times that the American people are demanding action,” White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement to The Huffington Post. “They want to see progress, not partisan delay games. That hasn’t changed, and the President supports Senator Reid’s efforts to reform the filibuster process.”
“Over the past few years important pieces of legislation like the DREAM Act, the Paycheck Fairness Act, and the American Jobs Act weren’t even allowed to be debated, and judicial nominations and key members of the administration are routinely forced to wait months for an up-or-down vote,” Pfeiffer added. “The American people deserve a United States Senate that puts them first, instead of partisan delay.”
This endorsement of Reid’s effort to reform the filibuster is the firmest White House statement to date on the matter.
The American people aren’t demanding any such action. A bare majority of the voters re-elected Obama with little idea of what he plans, because he didn’t detail his plans. But Republicans retain control of the House and a majority of the governorships. Republicans might have captured the Senate, if not for a few numbskulls. A tweak here and there and Romney might have defeated Obama. Neither party has a mandate to do much of anything. If the American people did anything on Nov. 6, they endorsed gridlock with a celebrity atop the mess. And even that might be a stretch. Honestly, Nov. 6 was among the most incoherent elections I can recall.
Saying that the “American people are demanding action” sounds nice, but the line is really just a weapon of mass deception.
Let him do it.
It’s going to be more important to say “we tried to say this is was a bad idea” than it is to actually stop things. Trust me.
You’re wrong. This is a disaster. This is not about passing legislation–it’s about appointing three young hard-left Supreme Court Justices, for a permanent 6-3 majority.
Correction: permanent 5-4 majority.
the DREAM Act, the Paycheck Fairness Act, and the American Jobs Act weren’t even allowed to be debated
Forgot to mention the house budgets sent up, the repeal obamacare bill passed by the house, and a few others that Harry didn’t want to have debated.
Oh and 3+ years of a legally required budget bill.
Steps to make the regime more solid.
What goes around, comes around. Especially, in the halls of congress. I guess Harry and Barack thinks it will be a long time before the GOP regains control of the senate and they won’t be around to reap the harvest of their own rules changes for the senate. Actually, several senate rules are specifically designed for obstruction by both the majority and the minority bodies.
It’s pretty funny that they think these rules won’t be used by a Republican majority leader in 2 or 4 years.
The art and science of election theft has been refined to the degree that they feel they need no longer worry about that.
Besides, by then, they figure that the government will have been transitioned to a Politburo system.
So, apparently you’ve decided to turn the Tatler comments sections into opportunities to hyper-link yourself.
There is a word for this. No, it’s not “ugly“. It’s SPAM.
This is the one you want to watch. All the other stuff is of modest significance. If Obama and Reid revoke the Filibuster in the US Senate they will Pwn America.
Big time.
– the one-party state of Californecrosis, but now the whole country is Californicated.
Except it’s not an attempt to kill the filibuster at all. It’s an attempt to make them ACTUALLY stand up and filibuster.
make them ACTUALLY stand up and filibuster
That’s a Democrat talking point. And it is wrong.
This is NOT about who has to stay up late, eating milk and cookies and talking. And I suspect you know this.
Of course this should be changed but not eliminated. The Republicans have brought this on themselves with using this for only obstruction – no other way to describe this. They do this for minor appointments to just say no to everything. The last session it was done in record numbers which broke the record for the prior session. This is no way to run a government.
A better way is to let them talk to bring attention to the fact that they are holding up whatever – and also let’s eliminate the pocket veto while we are at it. No Senator should have the power to secretly hold up any appointment as this is a vestige of earmarks and looking for bribes to get their approval.
Oh and one other thing regards filibusters – there should be at least one or two members from the opposition party among the 40 votes. Just having everyone from one party should void any filibuster.