Comments on: Senate Leaders Agree To Weak Filibuster Reforms

By: Magus

Magus — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:28:00 +0000

Reid is a Republican infiltrator of the party.

By: bchrista

bchrista — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:03:00 +0000

People It’s taken me a while to see for myself that Harry Reid is a Republican wan-a-be in hiding I have been believing his tough talk about standing up to Republicans and Tea Baggers for years and was proud that he was a Democrat and now that the Senate is Democraticly controlled I thought maybe we had a chance to get some things done I find that he has backed down to old turtle face and once again allowed McConnell to get his way. He had him by the throat and released the hold allowing McConnell to get away to pull his sneaky shit. McConnell is a slimey, sneaky snake crawling, rat bastard, that is anti anything that helps the American public and against the Republican-Tea Bagger, he is one of the reasons we are having trouble getting out of the hole he helped put us in, McConnell, Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, and John Bolton helped push through the bull shit lie about WMD and build momentum to start two wars so they could steal millions from the billions it cost to finance those two wars and they did it with the help of Haiburton who wrote bills for billions of dollars and are still collecting on those bills today, $100 dollars for a gallon of fuel, 35 dollars for a toliet seat, apart that you could buy for $25 dollars went for as high as $1000 dollars and we the tax payer paid for it so Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfald could have their war, which the cost was passed on to Obama’s Presidency nice bunch of guys. AS for McConnell I would love to wipe that smile off his turtle looking face. Talk about a heartless, cruel, and evil bunch of bastards, you know the name that Bush used on North Korea applies to them “axis of evil” to a Tee.

By: nobsartist

nobsartist — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:08:00 +0000

the longer the time ticks on with no legislation to control the banks and corporations, the more money they make. this is just a scam and both party’s are in on it.

By: charleo1

charleo1 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:03:00 +0000

Well, it could have been worse! And even though that’s the gospel truth, it’s a disheartening situation,
when a Party can win by the margins Democrats did across the Country, and the best we can
say about the election, is we probably prevented many of the worst things from happening, if the
election had gone the other way. We know there will be no new gun regulation. No reinstating the
assault weapons ban, limiting of clip size, or outlawing armor piercing ammunition. So we know
more Police will die in the line of duty. We know, climate change will not be addressed. And public investment, infrastructure, and research, will suffer. There will be no campaign finance reform. So, the prospect of anonymous donors injecting unlimited cash into the political system, deforming
the process, will continue. And, we know extremist in the government will continue their by any means necessary tactics, to threaten, obstruct, and erode the confidence of investors, and consumers alike. But there will be important battles we must win. Battles which we would have had no chance of winning with a President Romney, or a Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell.
Healthcare reform, which is already helping millions of Americans, finally freed from some
of the most egregious practices of the insurance cartels. will continue. And, at least 30 million
more Americans will for the first time, have access to basic healthcare. We will not be
privatizing Social Security, block granting Medicaid, or vouchering Medicare. And the
budgets designed to cut our public debt will not be balanced entirely on the backs of the Middle
Class, and Seniors. While the wealthy will pay more, Wall Street will not go back to making
it’s own rules. And Barack Obama, and not Mitt Romney, will be nominating, and seating,
the next one, and perhaps two, Supreme Court Justices. So, we should count our blessings.
And resolve ourselves to not become cynical. Cynical is what the Right has become. They
encourage it. They are manipulated by it. It drives their politics, and produces the gridlock
that prevents positive change. And, it has stolen their faith. Their faith in government, their faith
in their fellow citizens, and their faith in believing all but the worst of even the most altruistic
efforts. And maybe worst of all, they seem to have lost faith in the belief, that we’re all in this together.
We know that’s wrong. And we know we have a President that knows from his own life
experiences, that’s not who we are. We need, the Country needs, and the Conservatives need,
most of all, for us to remind them of the time, not really all that long ago, they believed that too.

By: sigrid28

sigrid28 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:49:00 +0000

But imagine how you would feel if you were a Republican.

By: sigrid28

sigrid28 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:42:00 +0000

I’m not so sure Harry Reid’s plan (actually created by eight Senators, 4 Republican and 4 Democratic) is just an effort to please campaign backers. He sees himself as the GATEKEEPER, blocking all the crazy stuff the Republican House passes and sends on to the Senate (like 33 separate bills to repeal Obamacare or Ryan’s budgets that annihilate Medicare). The current “solution” gives Republicans a greater opportunity to amend legislation they do not block by abuse of the filibuster, but assures that their crazy amendments can never become law, because they do not have a 60-vote majority in the Senate. Listening to the debate on the floor before the vote, I have conclude along with Rachel Maddow that they still will get very little done in the Senate, but they will do it faster.

By: old_blu

old_blu — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:29:00 +0000

Just sounds like business as usual obstruct all they can and hold America and Americans hostage. I think we should hold their pay until they get it done. (whatever it is)

By: Budjob

Budjob — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:50:00 +0000

Harry Reid is a weak kneed coward.It’s getting to the point that I am ashamed to be a Democrat!

By: nobsartist

nobsartist — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:43:00 +0000

That seems to me the M.O. with this administration. Fuck the voters that supported them in favor of bankers and corporatists.

By: nobsartist

nobsartist — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:42:00 +0000

The best “half assed” government money can buy.