{"id":182346,"date":"2015-10-13T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/13\/f-me-i-agree-with-mitch-mcconnell\/"},"modified":"2015-10-13T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T01:35:00","slug":"f-me-i-agree-with-mitch-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/13\/f-me-i-agree-with-mitch-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"F%$# Me.  I Agree with Mitch McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/256631-senate-gop-opens-door-to-weakening-the-filibuster\">looking at further restricting the filibuster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the assertions by Senators that the US Senate is &#8220;<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">The Word&#8217;s Greatest Deliberative Body<\/span><\/b>,&#8221; the filibuster, and its routine use has made it nothing more than a petri dish for psychopaths:<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is opening the door to changing the filibuster in response to growing pressure from Republicans angered that Democrats have blocked legislation from reaching the White House.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">McConnell has appointed a special task force to explore changes to the filibuster rule and other procedural hurdles \u2014 including whether to eliminate filibusters on motions to proceed to legislation. That\u2019s a tactic the minority often uses to shut down a bill before amendments can be considered.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">McConnell has tapped his close ally, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Senate Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) to form a task force with Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and two other freshmen to weigh various reforms. They hope to implement the changes at the start of next year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to take a serious look at whether Senate rules ought to be changed in order to make the Senate work more effectively,\u201d Alexander said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The filibuster is an accident of history, and it has done far more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>To the degree that the filibuster returns to the fetid swamps of history, it is a good thing, regardless of party.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Understand that this is not a formal diagnosis.  I am an engineer, not a doctor, dammit!<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">LOVE IT<\/span> when I get to go all Doctor McCoy!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is looking at further restricting the filibuster. Notwithstanding the assertions by Senators that the US Senate is &#8220;The Word&#8217;s Greatest Deliberative Body,&#8221; the filibuster, and its routine use has made it nothing more than a petri dish for psychopaths:* Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is opening the door to changing the filibuster in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,998,1214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-congress","category-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}