New Republic: Is the Filibuster Good? No, No, No, No, No, No, (GOP Retakes Senate) Yes
New Republic, January 14, 2014: Stupid filibuster!
New Republic, September 29, 2014: Stupid filibuster!
Killing the “Nuclear Option” Will Not Save the Senate. It Will Ruin Obama’s Final Two Years
New Republic, March 7, 2013: Stupid unconstitutional filibuster!
New Republic, July 15, 2013: Stupid filibuster!
New Republic, August 6, 2013: Stupid filibuster!
New Republic, November 21, 2013: Stupid filibuster!
Nuking the Filibuster Is Great. Sanctimonious Beltway Types Just Won’t Admit It.
New Republic, November 4, 2014 (just after GOP retakes the Senate): Second look at the filibuster?
Democrats Should Use the Filibuster Ruthlessly Against the Republican Senate
Hackery is fun to watch, isn’t it?
Ding.
Patterico (9c670f) — 11/5/2014 @ 7:32 pmSo, they’re back to “last bastion of the Republic”?
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/5/2014 @ 7:43 pmLovely. You know they were thinking this and wouldn’t put it out pre-election for exactly this reason.
Robert C. J. Parry (293015) — 11/5/2014 @ 7:44 pmHowever, they will punch Perez through as AG using the nuclear option before they go.
There needs to be a price established for that. Like “we will open Yucca Mountain”
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/5/2014 @ 7:45 pmThere needs to be a price established for that. Like “we will open Yucca Mountain”
Or better yet, we will be holding hearing after hearing focusing on the abuses of the Holder Justice Department.
JVW (60ca93) — 11/5/2014 @ 7:48 pmDissent is, once again, patriotic.
It used to be racist.
Rodney King's Spirit (8b9b5a) — 11/5/2014 @ 7:55 pmIoiddi.
nk (dbc370) — 11/5/2014 @ 7:58 pmSlate had some major hackery today as well, something about the left winning last night from William Saletan I believe.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/5/2014 @ 8:00 pmGetting stuff done is not an unalloyed good.
Restore the filibuster.
DNF (46af08) — 11/5/2014 @ 8:04 pmThe hubris and shamelessness of the left are sickening. Of course, the ends justify the means with such people, because they are, after all, a paradigm of humaneness, tolerance, generosity, compassion and love. [Snerk!]
Mark (c160ec) — 11/5/2014 @ 8:28 pmThe filibuster rule in the Senate reminds me of the pre Civil War rules about never mentioning slavery in Congress.
To hell with phony rules, that wouldn’t pass the constitutionality sniff test if they were adopted in State legislatures, and are only designed to give the minority an unnatural veto.
Let Congress live by the rules everyone else has to abide by. One law.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 11/5/2014 @ 8:30 pmWait until the Republicans try to use “Reconciliation” to undo some of Obamacare. The Dems will scream bloody murder, and try to make everyone forget that the Dems used reconciliation to pass it in the first place.
Steven Den Beste (99cfa1) — 11/5/2014 @ 8:35 pmA President of your own party in the White House is better than a filibuster when you’re in the minority. He can veto. The majority party does not care because it will win on up and down votes on things like Presidential appointment. It’s important only when the majority and the President are of the same party. Then the minority does not stymie the majority and the President.
Having said that, let the Reid option hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of the Democrats looking forward to a Republican President and Senate in two years. It might tempt them to be more cooperative now. Like maybe not using it in the next two months to confirm Obama appointments.
nk (dbc370) — 11/5/2014 @ 8:40 pmThe way to prevent nominations from flooding though is this: Senate committees could be 10-8 Republican. Do this and they’ll be 10-4.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/5/2014 @ 8:41 pmErwin Chemerinsky says this is perfectly consistent!
Mitch (bfd5cd) — 11/5/2014 @ 9:16 pmThe filibuster is dead.
Those who are pretending otherwise are either liars or fooling themselves. But the filibuster was always extra-Constitutional and utterly unenforceable by anything other than rigorous mutual adherence to, and reverence for, the tradition of senatorial debate.
It was a soap bubble, then, despite its incredible importance in American history. It’s gone.
But I fully expect the new GOP majority in the Senate to indulge themselves in the fantasy that if everyone agrees again now (while the GOP’s in the majority) that the filibuster is an important limit on majority power and must be preserved, then the Dems will continue to hold to that undertaking the next time there’s a Democratic majority.
But they won’t, next time. No more than the next time, Lucy will actually leave the football in place for Charlie Brown to kick.
Call me Cassandra. I’m going to shout at those kids to get off my lawn, because one of them looks too much like Mitch McConnell.
Beldar (fa637a) — 11/5/2014 @ 9:18 pmso good.
asdf (889b5b) — 11/5/2014 @ 9:21 pmSo sour, the grapes of wrath.
htom (9b625a) — 11/5/2014 @ 9:54 pmYork finds the extra buffer in the House will free him from needing Dhims to pass his capitulations.
Like the arguments here against a filibuster ‘reasonings’ appear opaque.
DNF (46af08) — 11/5/2014 @ 11:54 pmThe filibuster should go. The parliamentary rules should extend courtesies to the minority but should not permit them to gum up the works indefinitely. As for Reid, it is tempting to suggest the parliamentary rules should specify that the Sergeant at Arms should detain him from time to time and stomp on his face.
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 11/6/2014 @ 4:18 amfilibusters do not affect me
I just float on
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:26 amChris Hughes, didn’t take his better half’s loss particularly well did he,.
narciso (ee1f88) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:32 amYou know how they call reconciliation the “Byrd Rule”? Well, Republicans have to start calling abolishing the filibuster situationally the “Reid Option”. “When the filibuster is convenient to us, we will allow it. When it’s inconvenient to us, we will exercise the “Reid Option”.
nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:33 amPrediction: Soon to be released and rocket to the top of the NYT best seller list: “What’s Tthe Matter With America”, by Thomas Frank
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:44 amOn the other hand, this level of hackery is nothing compared to the days when the New Republic praised Mussolini.
pst314 (ae6bd1) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:52 amAnyone else having problems accessing Insty?
askeptic (efcf22) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:11 amI can’t make the page happen on my phone
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:13 amOdd. pjmeida is up and no mention of this on http://glennreynolds.com/
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:30 amYeah, me too. Check his backup site. Google *Instapundit down*.
nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:31 amhttp://twitchy.com/2014/11/04/secrets-out-heres-what-real-journalism-means-to-the-new-republic/
TNR has a weird view of the role of JournoLists.
JD (82bdb7) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:57 aminsty up now
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:05 amHeh.TM
carlitos (c24ed5) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:09 amYeah, it was back up after returning from my bike ride – though I did send Glenn an email before leaving.
askeptic (efcf22) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:48 amGood news, everyone!
DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM is the coin of the Obamacrat realm again!
Tell your friends!
Good Lt. (370eaa) — 11/7/2014 @ 12:49 pmThe New York Times is a poster child for reversals on it editorial positions on filibusters.
scrubjay (e4db39) — 11/8/2014 @ 6:11 amhttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/then-and-now-the-hilarious-hypocrisy-of-new-york-times-editorials-on-the-filibuster/article/2539617