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Senate Nuclear Option will haunt The Democrats!

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited November 2014 in Politics
Old Harry Reid should have kept his mouth shut! Now the shoe is on the other foot! It's going to be a big big show up there now!

serf

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/senate-filibuster-reform_n_4316325.html

Reid opened debate in the morning by saying that it has become "so, so very obvious" that the Senate is broken and in need of rules reform. He rolled through a series of statistics intended to demonstrate that the level of obstruction under President Barack Obama outpaced any historical precedent.

Half the nominees filibustered in the history of the United States were blocked by Republicans during the Obama administration; of 23 district court nominees filibustered in U.S. history, 20 were Obama's nominees; and even judges that have broad bipartisan support have had to wait nearly 100 days longer, on average, than President George W. Bush's nominees.

Comments

  • RocklobsterRocklobster Member Posts: 7,060
    edited November -1
    387 bills passed by the House sitting on Reid's desk and the Republicans are "obstructionist."
  • casper1947casper1947 Member Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by us55840




    Isn't ole Harry up for reelection next time around?







    YES!

    Among class III are notables:
    Barbara Boxer
    Richard Blumenthal
    Chuck Schumer
    Patrick Leahy
    and definitely not last, but I think least.....John McCain.
  • eastbankeastbank Member Posts: 4,215
    edited November -1
    old harry didn,t look to happy at the white house meeting with the pres and other rep,s. he looks like a man about to be thrown off a bridge and he knows it. happy day for the united states. according to T.S. uncle albert,one of the i don,t give a crap crowd.
  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,664 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    With luck some of the old guys will retire. If not they will be almost impossible to beat, their political corruption trumps your vote.
  • Ford 23Ford 23 Member Posts: 3,129
    edited November -1
    Obama, Reid, wounded animals. more dangerous than-ever.

    Saw these words on a forum I read local politics, thought very profound hang on here they come along with the Dem allies who want revenge
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,296 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In spite of Harry Reid Senate doing nothing, the President will claim the the House has failed to pass bills
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