Filibuster

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• Filibuster Roundup

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 486
  FDL: More and more, liberals are seeing that the filibuster is an enemy of governance itself .
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• Grayson’s Senate filibuster petition faulted

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  Rep. Alan Grayson, Florida Democrat, is trying to make it easier to prevent Senate filibusters, arguing that President George W. Bush got better treatment than President Obama is getting. The only problem is, --none of the seven votes the Florida Democrat cites as evidence backs up his claim. Mr. Grayson is ...
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• The Filibuster Must be Changed

  
  American Reality — Authority: 130
  Recently, some progressives have been suggesting that Senate Democrats should lower the threshold needed to break a filibuster from 60 votes to 55. While I strongly believe the current filibuster rules are too strong I feel this proposal goes too far. I understand why so many are frustrated by the Senate’s ...
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• Lots of Black Friday Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 486
  * You can listen to a segment of the Slavoj Žižek essay on contemporary apocalypticism that will appear in our upcoming issue of Polygraph here . (via Verso ) * The headline reads, Cigar-Shaped “Mothership” Plunges Argentinian Town Into A Blackout. * 15 Toys Not to Buy Your Child This Christmas. Of ...
  2 days ago

• Against the filibuster, against the bill

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  Now that its 2009 and Barack Obama is president, Republicans claim that they believe voting against a filibuster is the same thing as voting for the bill. They are, of course, wrong . Think back to what happened in 2003, the last major health care debate. In that year, Republicans took the exact opposite view ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (71) Are Filibusters Constitutional?

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Absent the threat of a filibuster, health care reform would already have been enacted into law.  Are filibusters constitutional?      By itself, the "filibuster" is nothing more than an attempt to wear down the opposition through endless debate.  It is an annoying tactic whenever it is used by family ...
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• Reviewing the Rise in the Number of Filibusters

  
  Craig Cheslog — Authority: 126
  Ezra Klein finds a US News analysis that measures just how much greater the use of the filibuster is today . Its gone, according to this research by UCLA Professor Barbara Sinclair, from impacting eight percent of major legislation in the 1960s to over 70 percent today. As Klein notes: I cant emphasize this ...
  3 days ago

• The quest for a new dining room table.

  
  C'est La Vie — Authority: 136
  One of these days, I might have to start looking at Dining Tables . When considering that I’m going to have another child next July, and that my boyfriend is probably going to want to move in with me to help out with everything… my guess is that we’re going to need a bigger table than the one we have right now. ...
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• It took me some time to find this, but…

  
  C'est La Vie — Authority: 136
  I actually found one that I liked enough to post up here! So here it is. I’ve decided to post this now because I’m obviously going to be busy later.
  3 days ago

• Charter’s at it again with really great deals!

  
  C'est La Vie — Authority: 136
  This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Charter Communication . All opinions are 100% mine. Have any of you heard about Charter’s latest deal? They’re known for offering a lot of great deals and running a lot of awesome contests and sweepstakes, and this most recent one is certainly no exception ...
  4 days ago

• ‘64

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 486
  Ezra Klein has today’s history lesson on the recency of the permanent filibuster. (via Steve Benen ) UPDATE: More from Robert Schlesinger , this time via Ezra : According to research by UCLA political scientist Barbara Sinclair, there was an average of one filibuster per Congress during the 1950s. That ...
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• Bagnall – you are increasing every person’s tax on PEI !

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 148
  Jim Bagnall, a PEI filibuster? Every person on PEI will pay more taxes not what you promised Conservative MLA Jim Bagnall has taken the floor during debate on the new property tax bill. He will not sit down and has resisted the Chair’s admonitions. Cynthia Dunsford, acting chair of the committee of the whole, is ...
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• Why Give Thanks on Thanksgiving Day?

  
  brianlee — Authority: 136
  An interesting article from http://www.wnponline.org/ to read as you prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday. You can get the booklet here and subscribe to this blog for more stories like this here. and for more in-depth reading on Thanksgivings history click here Why Give Thanks on Thanksgiving Day? A ...
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• ReverseTheVote.org ***BUMPED***

  
  brianlee — Authority: 136
  A very interesting post from www.hughhewitt.com about Democrats who are in districts that voted for McCain in 2008 and are therefore vulnerable if they vote with their party on health care, as the article says, and likely immigration, if that comes up. You can keep up on this by subscribing to this blog here ...
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• Who Broke the U.S. Senate?

  
  Craig Cheslog — Authority: 126
  Mark Schmitt points with justification at former Senator Robert Dole and the ideological realignment of our two major political parties. . And, yes, I still think it is well past time for us to eliminate the filibuster--even if its elimination has to be set at some future date (perhaps six years from now) so no one ...
  5 days ago

• Tuesday Night Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 486
  * Sad: Republicans have successfully convinced their followers that climate change isn’t real. * Nate Silver: How Bad Could Obama Screw Up and Still Beat Sarah Palin? * Ezra Klein on fixing the filibuster and SCOTUSblog on fixing the Court . * Blueprints for nerds. Via Kottke. * New Jersey in the news! ...
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• Alan Die Quickly Grayson Seeks 55-Vote Supermajority

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 131
  The Dems bombastic pit-bull Alan Grayson started a petition (sub req) yesterday urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to lower the Senate’s cloture requirement from 60 votes to 55. Edging dangerously close to his " die quickly " meme, Grayson says that "every day the Senate delays, more people die from lack ...
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• Poison Pills and Ron Paul Fed Audit Thrills

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 565
  By now everyone probably knows that Ron Paul’s bill, HR.1207, was passed as an amendment tacked on to the gigantic unconstitutional financial regulatory reform bill. By this measure, Paul’s effort to have a full audit of the Fed is poisoned by the underlying bill. So the question becomes, will Ron Paul himself ...
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• An Easy Question

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 703
  Ezra is, of course, completely right about the filibuster . While there may be individual exceptions in the long sweep of history, legislative gridlock is far more beneficial to reactionary than to progressive interests. Its not even a close question. Id only add that Winships invocation of Supreme Court ...
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• GOP Leaders Assert Health Care Bill is Too WIDE

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 539
  “IT’S REALLY A SLIPPERY SLOPE. ONCE YOU GO BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL 8ай x 11 BOND PAPER, IT’S CLEAR A BILL HAS TRANSGRESSED THE BOUNDARY INTO SOCIALISM.”
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