This via a comment by dljessup here: as usual, Barack Obama is showing us the same keen political instincts and appreciation of long-term trends that gave us the 2010 election cycle.
President Barack Obama endorsed more changes to the filibuster rules in the Senate in a speech Wednesday, remarks that will encourage senators who want to deploy the “nuclear option” again.
At a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in New York, Obama specifically said Democrats need to change “how a filibuster works,” without going into specifics on what, exactly, he has in mind.
Because the current half-nuking of the filibuster has done such wonders in… making the President look weak and unable to shepherd his nominees through a Senate controlled by his own party. Imagine how he’d deal with a GOP-controlled Senate. One whose members have long and bitter memories of how they were kicked when they were down.
I know, I know. Heckuva thing when you can take comfort in the essential pettiness of the average US Senator*, particularly when he or she has been crossed. But I didn’t make the system: I’m just the guy giving unsolicited advice on how to operate in it. We’re all Bozos on this bus…
Moe Lane
*Not all of them. Some of them are good Joes and Jos.
