"Since attaining power, Senate Democrats, powerless to face America’s “big challenges,” have passed a nearly trillion-dollar stimulus bill, a bill to reform the entire health care system, far-reaching immigration legislation that would create tens of millions of new citizens and a mass of regulations that would reform the entire financial sector. Oh, and the president has appointed two Supreme Court justices with almost no genuine opposition. Republicans must be the most inept obstructionists of all time. Perhaps Merkley is under the impression that a constitutional mandate compels the GOP to ensure that a far-left-wing populist is running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (which didn’t even exist until 2011) or the National Labor Relations Board. Maybe he believes that Republicans are under an obligation to provide him with acceptable philosophical reasons to oppose nominees and legislation. Neither of those is a prerequisite for filibustering. Merkley and Reid are the ones, in fact, creating arbitrary boundaries for the filibuster — which has been increasingly used by both parties over the past decade — because they dislike and disagree with the reasoning of the minority. After all, if the executive branch “can’t function,” how on earth is the president creating millions of jobs, saving the planet from climate change and fighting for gay marriage and DREAMers and you?" [...] "The federal government has been able to dictate, cajole and blackmail states into participating in nearly every legislative effort — from highway bills to welfare expansions to Obamacare. That’s one of the benefits of open-ended deficit spending. You’re always loaded. A filibuster forces real compromise and protects the smaller states. We’re built for evolutionary, not revolutionary, change. The filibuster slows things down. That fact drives those embarked on a self-proclaimed mission to remake the nation a bit restless, a bit too eager to deploy absurd arguments and, perhaps, prepared to abuse their power. We’ll see soon enough." humanevents/2013/07/11/save-the-filibuster/
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:04:31 +0000
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