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14 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Obama vents frustratio... · 0 replies · +2 points
By Jonathan Bean on Nov 6, 2008
What will prevent the Democrats from rewriting the rules to lower the cloture bar to 51 Senators? In practical terms, that means the gagging of the Republican minority. We will have one-party rule, utterly. The only downside is that voters might see it as a power grab (which it is) but with a smooth-talking president of the same party, who will raise the issue? Surely the Democrats will spin it as as democracy in action; after all, it still takes a majority to shut down debate, correct? But this would be a sea change in the way Congress does business and it may leave the GOP gasping for air.
Full Text: http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=457
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