You know what would make life a lot easier? A direct democracy.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the man who once argued that weakening the Senate filibuster would “destroy the very checks and balances our Founding Fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government,” is supposedly ready to use the “nuclear option.” It would allow a simple majority to change rules to overcome a filibuster. And no matter how narrow Reid says the scope of his power grab would be, in the long run, it would kill the filibuster, and he knows it.
Why now? Well, Reid claims that Republicans have engaged in “unprecedented” obstructionism. Here’s how Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon explained the Democrats’ reasoning to The New York Times: Republicans, he alleges, “are going to disable the executive branch if a minority of the Senate disagrees with or dislikes the president the people elect. It’s come into a realm where it’s just unacceptable because if the executive branch can’t function, then the nation can’t respond to the big challenges it faces.”
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/07/11/save-the-filibuster/
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the man who once argued that weakening the Senate filibuster would “destroy the very checks and balances our Founding Fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government,” is supposedly ready to use the “nuclear option.” It would allow a simple majority to change rules to overcome a filibuster. And no matter how narrow Reid says the scope of his power grab would be, in the long run, it would kill the filibuster, and he knows it.
Why now? Well, Reid claims that Republicans have engaged in “unprecedented” obstructionism. Here’s how Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon explained the Democrats’ reasoning to The New York Times: Republicans, he alleges, “are going to disable the executive branch if a minority of the Senate disagrees with or dislikes the president the people elect. It’s come into a realm where it’s just unacceptable because if the executive branch can’t function, then the nation can’t respond to the big challenges it faces.”
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/07/11/save-the-filibuster/
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