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The bitter polarization of our partisan politics has reached a new historical height, or perhaps sunk to a new depth, depending on your perspective.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Thursday to eliminate the use of the filibuster against most presidential nominees, a move that will break the Republican blockade of President Obama’s picks to cabinet posts and the federal judiciary. The change is the most fundamental shift in the way the Senate functions in more than a generation.
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“The need for change is so, so very obvious. It is clearly visible. It is time to get the Senate working.”
-- Senator Harry Reid (D)
“You think this is in the best interest of the United States Senate and the American people? I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, you’ll regret this. And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.”
-- Senator Mitch McConnell (R)
{Source: New York Times}
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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Thursday to eliminate the use of the filibuster against most presidential nominees, a move that will break the Republican blockade of President Obama’s picks to cabinet posts and the federal judiciary. The change is the most fundamental shift in the way the Senate functions in more than a generation.
~ ~ ~
“The need for change is so, so very obvious. It is clearly visible. It is time to get the Senate working.”
-- Senator Harry Reid (D)
“You think this is in the best interest of the United States Senate and the American people? I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle, you’ll regret this. And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.”
-- Senator Mitch McConnell (R)
{Source: New York Times}
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