Superdelegates' Clout CURBED? Democrats Propose Less Influence For VIP Delegates

60 votes are required to block the threat of a filibuster, and republicans have threatened most legislation (except military spending or money to corporations).

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There are two points you don't understand. One is Rule 22 & the fact that Democrats refuse to exercise the discretion that Rule22 allows: Making Republicans actually filibuster, instead of just threatening to do it.



Rule 22 gives the SenateMajorityLeader the discretion to actually make the call. HarryReid's called Republicans on it exactly once in the last 3 1/2 years, when it was something that Democrats really wanted & needed at that time (when RepublicanJimBunning threatened to filibuster a bill to temporarily extend unemployment benefits -- HarryReid called his bluff & Republicans caved).



HarryReid should make them do it, over every issue where they threaten to do it. Filibustering is hard on those soft, pampered bodies. Americans love reality TV. 'Survivor - Washington, DC'.



But Obama & the DLC-controlled DemocraticParty aren't doing that. Because it might actually work to get Democratic voters' legislative agenda made into the law of the land & do good for the People. And that's not what Obama&Company are there for. They're there to do the work of the transnational corporations, & preventing that are the liberals.



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Superdelegates' Clout CURBED? Democrats Propose Less Influence For VIP Delegates

The second point is that Democrats could even change the supermajority rule. Right now. Get everything and everything passed through simple majority, like it used to be.



All 200+ bills that the House has passed in the past 18 months, that sit waiting for Harry Reid to put them on the floor for a vote. But he doesn't because not only don't the Democrats in the Senate want what's in the House's legislation, the House Democrats don't want what they voted for. They only voted for these bills because they needed the cover of their yes-votes back home, with their liberal constituents, but they knew that the Senate Democrats would never pass these bills, so their campaign war chests would continue to get corporation donations.



It's a s!ck & dysfunctional cycle they have going.
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Superdelegates' Clout CURBED? Democrats Propose Less Influence For VIP Delegates

You couldn't be more wrong.



There are two points you don't understand. One is Rule 22 & the fact that Democrats refuse to exercise the discretion that Rule22 allows: Making Republicans actually filibuster, instead of just threatening to do it. Rule 22 gives the SenateMajorityLeader the discretion to actually make the call. Filibustering is hard on those soft, pampered bodies.



HarryReid's called Republicans on it exactly once in the last 3 1/2 years, when it was something that Democrats really wanted & needed at that time (when RepublicanJimBunning threatened to filibuster a bill to temporarily extend unemployment benefits -- HarryReid called his bluff & Republicans caved).



HarryReid should make them do it, over every issue where they threaten to do it -- Americans love reality TV. 'Survivor - Washington, DC'.



But Obama & the DLC-controlled DemocraticParty aren't doing that. Because it might actually work to get Democratic voters' legislative agenda made into the law of the land & do good for the People. And that's not what Obama&Company are there for. They're there to do the work of the transnational corporations, & preventing that are the liberals.



So Obama reaches out for Republicans, watering down the legislation that they won't vote for. Because everything that the parties do, both parties, is for the next election campaign. It's all about putting off, not getting anything done, making everything an election issue.
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Scientists: Obama Administration Has Pressured Us, Interfered With Our Work

Have you considered that the reason that the DLC-controlled Democrats who you're talking about don't happen to believe what you (and I) think Democrats stand for?



We're dealing with a political party that has been taken over and is now controlled by DINOs, moderate Republicans-in-Democrats'-clothing.



The DLC, now led by Obama, has moved the political center line far to the right. Obama, and Clinton before him, has been flipping off the left and trying to attract Republican politicians and their supporters to support Democratic politicians. Whenever Obama has the opportunity he waters down Democratic policies and legislation, in spite of the fact that the Republican Party has decided to reject everything Obama does.



The Republican Party announced what their intention the first day Obama got into office; it's not been any secret. But Obama continues to crank out what is really Republican-style legislation, and at the last hour, he gets it passed through reconciliation. Why would anybody do that if that end result, lousy policies that don't represent Democratic policies nor get the job done as Democrats were put into power to accomplish, wasn't exactly the policies that Obama and the DLC like?
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PolitiFact Embraces Equivocation, the Truth Gets Squeezed

I've been writing about Politifact for months, and that Politifact only recognizes 19 broken promises & cuts Obama much slack.



Politifact has gamed its way of measuring Obama's "promise-keeping"; its categories ('NO ACTION', 'IN THE WORKS', 'STALLED' or 'NOT YET RATED) are misleading. Many a campaign promise or pledge (hundreds of them) has been generously placed in these categories to languish.



As Politifact claims, "Once we find action is completed, we rate them 'PROMISE KEPT' 'COMPROMISE' or 'PROMISE BROKEN'". By Politifact's own definition, it enables Obama to keep these issues in limbo for 4 years.



One of many examples of Politifact's gaming its list is that Politifact doesn't even list in its "Promises Broken" category Obama's campaign promise to impose 'Windfall Profits Taxes on the Oil & Gas Industry" - Obama immediately reneged on it once in office, saying, "The prices have now dropped - We'll see about doing that if or when they rise again." Oil hit over $80/barrel (the amount that, had Obama kept his promise, the windfall profits tax would have been triggered) months ago. Politifact has conveniently ignored this issue.
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General George Casey: US Could Be At War For Another Decade

MADDOW: And it is just all spread out and ripped open. And people are going through it to see if there‘s anything valuable in the trash?



ENGEL: Yes. I mean, kids - here are some kids right here. They go through it. And it is quite sad. I mean, they‘ll go to through it and pick through anything that can be recycled or used again - or of any value, metal things. So in a way, it is its own environmental - but it shows there is a lot of poverty here.



MADDOW: Yes. This corner is like the microcosm of the war. This and this -



ENGEL: And these kids.



MADDOW: And us, too, because we‘re here as Americans covering this because of the American initiative here that created the economy that made this all possible.



Watch the interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR5BHnN__5M



Americans are losing our Social Security, Medicare, police, firemen, teachers, and we're going into debt to China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, that even our grandchildren won't be able to pay off, for wars to protect an oil pipeline that Americans don't derive any benefit from, don't get profits from, but that Dick Cheney, the Bush family, the Establishment Elites, all get profits from.
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General George Casey: US Could Be At War For Another Decade

ENGEL: It can breed corruption. Just having so much money injected into an economy. Afghanistan is very poor and it was isolated from the world except for the last 30 years of war which was an unpleasant interaction with the world for hundreds of years. And now, you have a totally different scale of economy coming in, billions of dollars a month. This country never saw anything like that.



MADDOW: It is going to people who are - it‘s not going to build the country. It is going to people who have private armies. It‘s going to people who are -



ENGEL: Next to giant houses, these streets are not even paved.



MADDOW: Yes.



ENGEL: I think that gives you an idea of how much the social services are spreading.



MADDOW: So when you hear the government, when you hear the leadership say, “We don‘t want the Americans to leave. We don‘t want the war to be over” -



ENGEL: There is an incentive -



MADDOW: Think about this neighborhood.



ENGEL: There is an incentive because war is a profitable business for many people.



MADDOW: Yes.



ENGEL: I think this neighborhood is actually very symbolic of a lot of the problems with this entire world, frankly. And here, next to an incredibly big house is an open garbage pile, because no one cares about the common space. Nobody - it is not anybody‘s problem. That is what you see everywhere. You know, you have a giant -



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