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"On Thursday, the US senate was poised to cast a pro forma vote on final passage of a China currency bill when Senate Republicans attempted to use the rules of the Senate to attach a post-cloture amendment. The Republican amendment would have required a vote on President Obama’s jobs bill, forcing Democrats to vote on the plan the president has been blaming Republicans for blocking. Because there are insufficient votes among Senate Democrats to force closure or pass the bill, allowing the amendment would have blown up the charade that congressional Republicans are the lone roadblock to Obama’s jobs bill.
Senate Majority Leader Reid objected to the affirmative ruling on the amendment and forced a vote along party lines, 51-48, to overrule the parliamentarian’s decision to allow it. Reid’s move effectively eliminates the minority’s ability to offer amendments, casting aside Senate history and precedent to change Senate rules simply to avoid a vote on a jobs plan his Democratic president has been demanding from Congress.
The Reid move establishes a dangerous precedent for the minority party. The repeal of Obamacare in January, 2013, may have just shifted from “possibility” to “likelihood,” thanks to a senior Senator who changed the rules simply to avoid embarrassment. Harry’s problems may be just beginning."
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Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, are the gift that keeps giving all year long. Add Joe Biden and what you have is a Critically Acclaimed Sitcom. Knowing what we do about Obama's Trillion + dollar boondoggle, and how it will hurt his chances of reelection, this hole thing may be a way for Obama to get out from under this Turkey?
