LOL..yeah ok...NYT ;Democrats Plan Challenge to G.O.P.’s Filibuster Use

[Ichingcarpenter]

WASHINGTON — In a move that could bring to a head six months of smoldering tensions over a Republican blockade of certain presidential nominees, Senate Democrats are preparing to force confirmation votes on a series of President Obama’s most contentious appointments as early as this week


If Republicans object, Democrats plan to threaten to use the impasse to change the Senate rules that allow the minority party wide latitude to stymie action.

Through the filibuster and other delaying tactics, Republicans have slowed the confirmation process as the president tries to install the team that will carry him through his second term. But Democrats and their majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, now say they have reached the point where they believe that the only way to break the logjam is to escalate the fight.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/us/politics/democrats-plan-challenge-to-gops-filibuster-use.html?pagewanted=all&_r=3&

[corkhead]

1. I'll believe it when I see it. I am not holding my breath. What other cliché applies?

[JHB]

2. Wolf!

Would be nice to see the toothy critter for once, using up all its dry powder.

[Lasher]

3. Yeah right

[zbdent]

4. It's too bad that the Repugs didn't kill the filibuster a few years back ...

right before they lost control of the Senate ...

I'm not of the thinking that the GOP is DOA (and just waiting for the body to cool) ... today's "liberally-biased media" has been known to raise the (Republican) dead from the grave.

Look at the anti-Iraq invasion movement, and the "Tea Party" ... two tales of "liberally-biased media" in the U.S.

Worldwide protests of Bush's invasion/occupation, you had to search the internet and rely on liberal sites to find out about it.

Some 'baggers run around in a tri-corner hat and spout the usual GOP stuff ... media darlings, and regaining the House in 2010.

[MrSlayer]

5. Blah blah blah.

No they won't. They don't have the guts. They should have changed the rules in 2009 when it really could have made some difference.