Rachel Maddow: Sherrod Brown can't believe the GOP would continue to block the Senate

[ProfessorPlum]

Run time: 04:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxg-eQ6WFUA   Posted on YouTube: January 28, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 28, 2010 By DU Member: ProfessorPlum Views on DU: 1072

 
Get ready to be surprised, Senator Brown.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Of course they would, as long as the Dems lie down and take it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7590572

[burning rain]

2. Besides their nasty inclinations, Republicans can't afford to cooperate with Dems.

The teabaggers would primary them, and perhaps oppose them with third party candidates in the general election even if they survived the primary. Look how Specter's GOP primary numbers tanked after he voted for the Stimulus, and now Rubio's overtaking Crist in the Florida GOP Senate primary, largely to to the latter's support of the Stimulus.

In fairness to Brown, he's not a filibuster supporter. He stated that other democracies function without supermajority requirements in the legislative process, and he supports Tom Udall's proposed rule change to require a simple majority, at the beginning of the next Congress. Still though, Senate Democrats should be vocally and constantly denouncing Republican obstructionism now with an eye to building public support for deploying the nuclear option as soon as possible. Senate Democrats can ill afford to achieve such sorry results in this legislative session, as the last one.

[suzanner]

3. I plan to add Sherrod Brown to my list for campaign contributions.