James Carville To Obama On Oil Spill: 'Get Down Here And Take Control... We're About To Die'

Now that Ted Kennedy has d!ed, even without a filibuster-proof Senate, Democrats control the Senate by a greater margin than either party has had in decades. Still Obama doesn't (and didn't) pressure the Blue Dogs, or threaten Lieberman with loss of his committee chairmanship.



But if you think that isn't enough, that it doesn't matter because Republicans can still filibuster anything and everything, there's Rule 22 of the Senate.



When we talk about Republicans filibustering, they really haven't been: They've been threatening to filibuster. Rule 22 leaves it up to the discretion of the Senate Majority Leader (Harry Reid) whether to actually force them to do it or just let them threaten (bluff).



Harry Reid has just let Republicans threaten, bluff. He's called them on it once in the last 3 1/2 years, when Republican Jim Bunning threatened to filibuster a bill to temporarily extend unemployment benefits, and Republicans caved. Filibustering is hard work.



Obama and Democrats are constrained by nothing.
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