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Friday, January 28, 2011
Senate Rules
I am disappointed in the Senate. In our nation, there is never a consensus of 60 percent on any issue, and yet Senate rules require 60 to invoke cloture. There had been some discussion after the election about revising it to avoid the type of abuse that was invoked the last two years by filibustering absolutely almost everything. This was not the original intent of the filibuster at all. So Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell came up with a gentlemen's agreement to eliminate individual Senator anonymous holds and to be more thoughtful about what is filibustered. The real meat on the bone, however, was overwhelmingly rejected. Lowering the cloture threshold and requiring Mr. Smith like appearances would have really been an improvement but it is not to be. This time I blame the Democrats who see a strong possibility of their own reduced forces after November 2012 and wanting to insure that they can use republican filibuster abuses if they become the minority. Oh well. Anyway, back to economic growth. Where are you Americans for reason and truth?
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Back to the economy you say? OK! What do you
ReplyDeletesuggest? More stimulas? How's the last working
out fer ya? Maybe some more of them there
"shovel ready" jobs, the others worked sooooo
good. Here's a novel idea! Why don't we take
our heel off it's neck and allow the economy
to breathe? I'm not the "brightest bulb in the
house," but it looks like to me when you are heading for a cliff one would apply the
brakes not "pour on the coals." George Bush and President Obama have just made matters
worse! "Only the strong survive" in the jungle as well as in business. Leave it alone! don't
feed it! Allow it to eat what it want's, not
what we think it should eat. What we need to do is not encumber(excessive taxes)the beast
with unnecessary entanglements(excessive
regulations).
Bootstrap Bob.