{"id":189941,"date":"2010-01-27T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/27\/is-joe-biden-suggesting-that-he-might-rule-the-filibuster-unconstitutional\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:42:00","slug":"is-joe-biden-suggesting-that-he-might-rule-the-filibuster-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/27\/is-joe-biden-suggesting-that-he-might-rule-the-filibuster-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Joe Biden Suggesting that He Might Rule the Filibuster Unconstitutional?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s coming down very hard on the filibuster, and I&#8217;m wondering if he is sending a signal that, as President of the Senate, he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0110\/Biden_derides_supermajority_rule.html?showall\">prepared to rule that the filibuster is unconstitutional<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;As long as I have served &#8230; I&#8217;ve never seen, as my uncle once said, the Constitution stood on its head as they&#8217;ve done. This is the first time every single solitary decisions has required 60 senators,&#8221; he said at a Florida fundraiser, according to the pool report. \u201cNo democracy has survived needing a super majority.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The author of the story seems to think that this is an attempt to create a groundswell for using reconciliation to fix healthcare, but I think that Biden might be suggesting something even more radical.<\/p>\n<p>I think (hope) that he is prepared to kill the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing here, is that the &#8220;Centrists&#8221; must be crapping their pants over this possibility, since their real agenda is to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">do nothing ever<\/span>, and a change to the filibuster rules would make it much more difficult to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">do nothing ever<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s coming down very hard on the filibuster, and I&#8217;m wondering if he is sending a signal that, as President of the Senate, he is prepared to rule that the filibuster is unconstitutional: &#8220;As long as I have served &#8230; I&#8217;ve never seen, as my uncle once said, the Constitution stood on its head as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,1020,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-legislation","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189941"}],"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=189941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}