Barack Obama’s basic filibuster mistake.
And it’s a mistake that has little if anything to do with the nomination of John Brennan as CIA Director (although having House Minority Leader Mitch McConnell somewhat surprisingly announce that he...
View ArticleSpeaking *as* a neocon hawk who enjoyed Rand Paul’s filibuster…
…I agree with Allahpundit’s reaction to John McCain’s / Lindsey Graham’s reaction to said filibuster: You would think Maverick might at least seize the opportunity to note that the guy who beat him...
View ArticleQotD, I Wish To Associate Myself With The Remarks… edition.
…of the distinguished gentleman from Georgia: I support killing bad guys with drones overseas. Hell, I’m okay with killing bad guys in the United States with drones if they are about to cause imminent...
View ArticleTed Cruz reaches out to grieving daughter of Sandy Hook victim.
(Via Hot Air) A couple points about this… The daughter of the Sandy Hook Elementary School principal who died in the mass killing in December could not join others from her community this week to lobby...
View ArticleHarry Reid will be 77 in 2016.
There was some speculation back in 2010 that this would be his last term. It may simply be that Reid has no plans to be in a Senate where both it and the Presidency are in the hands of the opposition...
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So Harry Reid prepares the Denethor option in the Senate.
Here we go. RT @LisaMascaroinDC: #Senate is voting now to motion to instruct the Sgt at Arms to round up absent senators. #Filibuster — David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) July 15, 2013 By the way: when...
View ArticleTweet of the Day, …And The Sign Was Taken Out Back And Never Seen Again edition.
Probably got sent out to a nice farm in the country, where it could play with all the other hideously misspelled and ungrammatical Democratic props: TWO LL'S WITH #FILIBUSTERS-Staffer removes placard w...
View ArticleQuote of the Day, I Guess Slate Thinks That I’m An Extremist, Then edition.
Because while I guess that this is supposed to alarm people about the implications of the filibuster… …picture a federal appellate bench composed of numerous Antonin Scalias and Clarence Thomases…...
View ArticleHarry Reid offers the NRA a scalp on controversial Surgeon General nomination.
Tell me again about how smart it was for Harry Reid to kill the filibuster over nominations. Because I’m pretty sure that it’s going to end up giving the NRA a public win: A number of Senate Democrats...
View ArticleBarack Obama: Nuke the filibuster! Me. …Don’t. Stop. Please.
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...
View ArticleKeep the 51 vote rule for Presidential appointments.
I’m with Allahpundit on the basic concept – essentially, the Democrats are going to flip it back to 51 whenever it’s advantageous to them anyway - but there’s another reason for not switching: it will...
View ArticleDurbin (D, D Majority) vs. Durbin (D, R Majority) on filibusters.
You have undoubtedly seen by now that Senator Dick Durbin is now ready to try to kill the filibuster, not five years after praising the practice to the skies. You are also undoubtedly not surprised....
View Article#rsrh Down, boy! No filibuster! No!
I was going to be cute about this, but I’m actually a little tired, so no. There will be no amending of the filibuster next Congress: five Democratic Senators (none of whom are running for re-election...
View Article#rsrh Why the filibuster will probably survive.
(H/T Instapundit) Senator Harkin of Iowa and the two Senator Udalls of Colorado and New Mexico are trying to push a last-minute, lame-duck change in the filibuster rules, presumably so that the...
View ArticleDemocrats, filibusters, and briar patches.
[monotone] Please. Don’t. Stop. [/monotone] Let’s set the (somewhat stylized) scenario, here: The Senate on January 5, 2011 – as per the apparent wishes of Senators Tom Udall of New Mexico and Tom...
View Article#rsrh Revisiting the filibuster.
Over at RedState, Erick Erickson’s written a post calling for people to flood the zone in opposition to changing the filibuster rules. I share that sentiment, and approve of it: and I agree with hogan...
View ArticleFilibuster ‘reform’ near?
Scare quotes, because it’s DC Kabuki Time! For those who are not ‘blessed’ enough to live within the Beltway – or downwind of it – this is that special time in the legislative calendar where federal...
View ArticleTurns out I was wrong on filibuster ‘reform’…
…when I said that the only result would be a symbolic gesture towards ‘reform’ with no real changes. It turns out that progressives didn’t even get that: their precious attempt to deny the Great...
View ArticleIt’s… weird. I’m kind of half-bored with talking about the election for right...
At least in a post; there’s really only so many ways that you can say Well, that sucked. But there’s really nothing much else happening today. i mean, we got Harry Reid feeling his oats and promising...
View ArticleHeritage’s helpful poison pill suggestions if Harry Reid kills the filibuster.
Got sent the link to this via email, and I gotta say: some of them are quite fun. I especially like this one: A new two-thirds point of order against any net tax increase on the American people as...
View ArticleHarry Reid… does not *cave* on the filibuster. Rather, he *disengages*.
Call it a “fighting retreat.” Or a disinclination to fight in a burning house. So, the big news today is that Harry Reid apparently voluntarily spit out some of his fangs on the filibuster. They’re...
View ArticleReport: Chuck Hagel not at 60 to confirm.
Just at rumor level at this point: Senate aide confirms, at this juncture, Reid doesn’t have the 60 votes to move Hagel — Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) February 14, 2013 …and do not get your hopes up. But...
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