Posted by Zach Roberts on November 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment
New Politics Progressive Internet Radio with The Shannyn Moore Show on BlogTalkRadio Here’s your homework for the night folks! Tonight is an earlier recorded episode – you can send me you questions and links at shannynmoore@gmail.com. Please subscribe so that you get updates as soon as the show is live – click here. CNN: And the credit for Filibuster Reform goes to… http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/22/politics/nuclear-option-background/index.html?iref=allsearch Joe Miller: This is How Liberty Ends http://joemiller.us/2013/11/liberty-ends/ Israel’s rhetoric over Iran ‘leaves it isolated from world powers’ http://rt.com/op-edge/israel-isolated-iran-deal-235/ Little Green Footballs: Christian American Patriots Militia Leader: We Now Have Authority to Shoot Obama http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/303552_Christian_American_Patriots_Mi The Guardian: Afghanistan considers…
Posted by Jeanne Devon on November 21, 2013 · 22 Comments
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally went nuclear. Using a rare procedural move, Reid and a majority of Senators voted 52-48 to overhaul a filibuster rule which had largely worked for decades, but which Republicans had so abused since the beginning of the Obama administration, that judicial and cabinet appointments that once would have been routine, became dead in the water. The numbers speak for themselves. The vote was largely down party lines, with 3 Democrats breaking ranks. But at least one Republican we know, who had a history of supporting the concept of the up-or-down vote, cast her vote…
Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Barack Obama, Headlines, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Nation, Republicans, Strategery, Teabaggery, Vitamin Democracy · Tags Filibuster reform, Filibuster vote, Harry Reid, Lisa Murkowski, Lisa Murkowski filibuster, Mark Begich, Mark Begich filibuster, Senate filibuster