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• Health Care Financing Reform: (71) Are Filibusters Constitutional?

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 134
       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 ...
  9 hours ago

• Reviewing the Rise in the Number of Filibusters

  
  Craig Cheslog — Authority: 123
  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 ...
  12 hours 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. ...
  22 hours ago

• 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.
  1 day 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 ...
  1 day ago

• ‘64

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 487
  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: 137
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• ReverseTheVote.org ***BUMPED***

  
  brianlee — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Who Broke the U.S. Senate?

  
  Craig Cheslog — Authority: 123
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Tuesday Night Links

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 487
  * 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! ...
  2 days ago

• Alan Die Quickly Grayson Seeks 55-Vote Supermajority

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 134
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Poison Pills and Ron Paul Fed Audit Thrills

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 583
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• An Easy Question

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 708
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• GOP Leaders Assert Health Care Bill is Too WIDE

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 562
  “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.”
  3 days ago

• Daily Grind: Senate Must Filibuster Public Option

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 493
  Editorial: Senate Must Filibuster "Public Option" Senate Republicans need to stick together in opposing political favors that make it easier to pass the ObamaCare abomination. Too Good For Their Own Taxes Once again, another tax cheat is brought forth in the Obama Administration. The Wire: Atlas Shrugs ...
  3 days ago

• Filibuster! The GOP Musical

  
  Technicolor Dreams — Authority: 132
  The media reminds America how vocally Republicans opposed the filibuster as partisan Democratic obstruction just a few years ago: And there was Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), who warned four years ago that “if the filibuster becomes an institutional response where 40 senators driven by special interest groups ...
  3 days ago

• GOP Rips Off ‘Curb’ Finale in Attack on Health Care Reform

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 562
  “TRUE, OVER 40,000 PEOPLE DIE EVERY YEAR FROM LACK OF HEALTH INSURANCE.  BUT HAVING SAID THAT , WE SIMPLY DON’T GIVE A SHIT .”
  3 days ago

• Nuclear option

  
  Needlenose — Authority: 120
  Come on Senator Reid, you milquetoast – you can’t play nice with scoundrels - it’s time for the nuclear option .
  3 days ago

• Whats Ahead for America?

  
  brianlee — Authority: 137
  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. Whats Ahead for America? Sensing a weakness of will, hostile nations appear to be ganging up on America. ...
  3 days ago

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