The Poisoned Well: Democrats' changing Senate rules end any potential for compromise

It is time to move to a simple majority rule in all matters of the US Senate. The Senate did the right thing for the wrong reasons.

 

I suppose that you want to keep direct election of the US Senate, tnd.

 

It would never have happened if the Republicans has not obstructed every proposal and almost every appointee that Obama made. The GOP completely abused the filibuster in opposing extremely well qualified apointees simply because Obama nominated them. This was a complete violation of dthe trust given by the Constitution to govern.

This is simply one more example of harm done to the country by the obstructionist Republicans!

 

Don't be one-sided, CTB; the Democrats obstructed a great many Republicans over the years because they controlled Congress for the last 80 years for the most part. Nevertheless, I welcome the move to make everything the Senate does to be decided by simple majority rule because that is more in line with what a republic should be. The Senate used to be made up of appointed people but now we have been electing them. That change destroyed the original rules. The Senate should cease to be more important than the House.

 

Nothing like the last five years. In the last five years the Republicans have almost doubled the filibusters in the entire history of the country before that time.

 

It is okay with me that Reid went nuclear. I just hope that he destroys the special majorities for all Senate transactions. Who does Reid think that he is?

 

Anyone who believes getting rid of the filibuster is a result of any obstruction has it only half right. There has been obstruction by both Republicans and Democrats and the President. They are all currently guilty of it just in the last two years.

Our government is set up to force each other to work with each other. Republicans may not like it but they need to work with the other side. Democrats may not like it but they need to work with the other side. The President may not like it but he needs to work with everyone.

But the President and the Democrats do not want to. But more specifically on this issue of judges. The 2n circuit court of appeals is the court that has been the biggest pain in the side of Obama. They have put an end to his constant run around congress and he does not like being told no.

That court is actually set up to hold 4 more judges than it currently has. But even Bush would not appoint any more because their work load is so light there just is no need for more.

Because this is the case Obama never gave it a second thought to appoint anymore judges to that court. At least not until they began hampering his agenda. So now he wants to appoint more judges to stack the court in his favor so he can continue to run around the other side of congress.

This is typical dishonesty from Obama and Reid. What they should have done and what the founding fathers intended was for Obama to find judges who are qualified and could be acceptable to everyone. He needed more moderate appointees rather than extreme far left judges who will be his yes men.

Everyone needs to work together and no one including and especially the President can get all they want. This is nothing more than Chicago style politics at its best.

 

And there is no end in sight for this style of politics. Obama has done many things which are illegal but no one has been able to criticize a Nobel Peace Prize winner. The main brake on the far left has been the collapsed economy.