Filibuster Flashback: Obama, Reid, Biden, Hillary and Schumer Decry Majority Rule in Senate

by Horatius on February 24, 2010

As now President Obama contemplates the “nuclear” option in pursuit of comprehensive health insurance reform, he and his Senate Democrat buddies might do well to remember what they were saying as senators, in 2005, when Republicans — then in the majority — discussed doing an end-run on the filibuster.  Their earnestness comes across as comical.  This video is solid gold.  Definitely worth the five minutes it takes to watch it.

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jaxspp March 1, 2010 at 12:13 pm

Hardly the same. The Republicans are on pace to quadruple the number of filibusters the Democrats had when they were the minority. I’m sure the founding fathers didn’t anticipate a filibuster a day like the Republicans are pulling. They actually anticipated tie-breakers, but we don’t even get to that point anymore.

jaxspp March 2, 2010 at 7:19 am

And I want to add what screwball pitcher Jim Bunning of Kentucky just did is disgusting. I know the area of construction he shut down on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It is devastated because tourists cannot get through that section, but Bunning, a typical short-term thinking Republican, sees the construction not as an investment that will pump dollars into the economy many times over but as a cost.

Kurt Schulzke March 2, 2010 at 6:26 pm

So where do you draw the line on filibusters? How many is too many?

jaxspp March 8, 2010 at 10:16 pm

I don’t know the number. Is the Senate a body where the majority is meaningless?

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