The Man Who Cried ‘Filibuster Reform’

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http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/the-man-who-cried-filibuster-reform/

Republicans will get yet another chance to block the confirmation of a totally uncontroversial nominee next week, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid holds a vote on Richard Cordray, the would-be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Readers may recall previous iterations of this story: In December of 2011, 45 senators, all Republican, voted against ending debate on Mr. Cordray’s nomination. Death by filibuster. Mr. Cordray’s credentials had nothing to do with those 45 nays; Republicans opposed him then, and oppose him now, because they dislike the federal agency that he would lead. (And it can’t operate properly without a director.) As the editorial board once put it, “banks—big campaign contributors—don’t want robust consumer protection because complex and obscure products are lucrative.”

Why Mr. Reid thinks he’ll have better luck next week is unclear, especially since, as Brian Beutler noted today, Republicans have pledged to filibuster and re-filibuster Mr. Cordray “unless and until Democrats agree to weaken his agency’s regulatory power.” For “weaken” read “kneecap.”

Realistically, the only way Mr. Reid can get Mr. Cordray through the Senate is by changing the rules mid-session, and doing away with the 60-vote requirement to end debate on nominations — i.e. through filibuster reform. Mr. Beutler said Mr. Reid may have “alluded” to that possibility.

But will Harry refuse to agree to filibuster reform until Jeb Bush is President? Why has he "kneecapped" the Senate?

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1. I love Harry Reid. If there was only 50, the worst thing ever-the Cornyn amendment would have passed

thank God and Harry Reid it didn't.

Harry knows how to play.

And Hillary will be the next President. She will kick Jeb's ass.
Hillary will win 115million votes and 500plus electoral votes.