McConnell's ABUSE OF CLOTURE MOTIONS---A PROXY FOR AMOUNT OF FILIBUSTERS---HAS SHARPLY INCREASED DURING McConnell's TENURE AS SENATE MAJORITY LEADER.
SINCE BECOMING SENATE MINORITY LEADER McCONNELL IS LEADING OBSTRUCTIONISTS!
Editorial Opinion
Filibustering our democracy: McConnell's abuse, Reid's misstep
Published: July 5, 2013 Updated 4 hours ago
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[Today] Now, 41 senators, representing as little as 10 percent of American citizens, could effectively block all legislation and nominations from moving forward.
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell has emerged as the lead crusader in the campaign to trivialize the filibuster for political gain:
"Matters of this level of controversy always require 60 votes," he [McConnell] nonchalantly noted one dreary December day, block[ed] a bill that would have ended last year's debt ceiling crisis by yielding authority to the president.
But the bill that McConnell had just filibustered should have been utterly uncontroversial to him — it was his own.
McConnell's unprecedented self-filibuster — the senatorial equivalent of punching oneself in the face — was just the most glaringly disingenuous maneuver in the recent, Republican-led spate of obstructionism in the Senate.
The number of cloture motions, a proxy for the amount of filibusters, has sharply increased during McConnell's tenure as Senate minority leader.
Since 2007, the Democratic-controlled Senate has seen an 85-percent increase in the obstructive measure, compared to the previous 10 years of Republican control.
As easy as it is for Democrats to point fingers at Republican obduracy, Democratic senators were quite fond of the procedure during the Bush administration.
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Bill Huff
huff9983@roadrunner.com
