What’s the Point of 60 Votes?
15 October 2009 10:27 am by Taylor Marsh
“Senator Reid is focused on crafting a health care bill that will overcome a Republican filibuster. Stripping Democratic Senators of their leadership titles is a decision that would be left up to the Caucus, not Senator Reid. In light of this reality it’s unlikely that the Caucus would ever go along with this idea.” – Jim Manley, Harry Reid’s spokesman
Republican filibuster? Huh?
I’m with Markos all the way on this one:
Bill Frist never had 60 votes. Bill Frist never cared. Republicans ran the Senate as if they owned the place, even when enjoying razor-thin majorities.
Yet when Democrats took the chamber, the first thing Harry Reid did was complain that he couldn’t do anything because he didn’t have 60 votes. …
Lyndon Johnson is using Senate Majority Leader Reid’s picture in hell for target practice.
Sen. Harry Reid may be the worst majority leader ever to occupy the title. The man can’t even count. With only 40 Republicans in the Senate, there is no such thing as a Republican filibuster. Of course, he’s obviously convinced a lot of people that this nonsense will fly. Not around here. Read David Waldman. What’s even worse is that Democrats are inviting Olympia Snowe into the conference giving her a place at the table she didn’t earn.
It’s enough to make a good Democrat turn Independent.
We give these idiots the power to control Congress, but what do they do? Turn the decision making process over to Olympia Snowe.
Anyone buying this is part of the problem and will own the aftermath.
Senator Reid is abdicating his job to Olympia Snowe. Hey, but Rahm Emanuel Pres. Obama evidently thinks that’s just a great idea.
What a feckless bunch of Democrats own the majority. If they let this continue they deserve to lose it.
