Balloon Juice’s MisterMix announces the flat-line for filibuster and confirmation reform. So Obama still won’t be able to get simple confirmations for federal judges and executive branch officials due to this opposition which leads to federal court docket backlogs and executive branch staffing by executive fiat and recess appointments. Republicans are by proxy, pushing more power [...]
The GOP called for the check Wednesday night, having had enough of the fight over an extension of unemployment benefits that the party had held up for several weeks. While the Senate was stuck in parliamentary limbo, some 200,000 people actively looking for work lost their unemployment benefits. The bill extends unemployment benefits for an [...]
But now he is ready to filibuster the health care reform bill from the party he caucuses with. “[People] are fed up — frustrated and fed up and angry about the way in which our government does not work, about the way in which we come down here and get into a lot of political [...]