Marxists Want To Do Away With Filibuster- Say Goodbye To Checks and Balances

This was on the demonrats agenda during the Las Vegas strategy convention last summer. One of the wise guy advisers "thinks" he has come up with a loophole in the Rules of the Senate, which can be used to end the filibuster. Normally any change to the Rules of the Senate require a 2/3rds vote to adopt any rule changes. The Commies though are going to point to the clause in the constitution which says, the Senate may adopt it's own rules. They are reading this as, at the beginning of each new Congress, the senate can vote it's rules for the new session at that time, by simple majority rule not a 2/3rds majority. This is a twisting of the intent of the overall rules which would end the Republican form of Government as established by the founding fathers, and move our form of government into the realm of a simple democracy. The simple democracy was what Jefferson warned posterity to avoid.

Tyrants arise under simple democracies. This form of government is the first step to dictatorship. Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Adolf Hitler, Ahmed Amendinejed and all the Soviet Union premiers were "elected" under a simple democracy election. A staged election.

Destroying the filibuster is the same thing as removing the keystone from an arch. Without it the whole structure will collapse from it's own weight.

The filibuster mandates compromise, and in other times the senate was able to resolve it's differences or table an issue as unresolvable and move to other business. The assault on the Republic by the Commies of the Left, which we are witnessing today, has the filibuster serving as the last line of our constitutional defense. Consider if you will the "nuclear option" which was subverted by one unconstitutional vote after another last December in order to cram ObamaCare down the throats of 70% of the American people against our will.

The nuclear option illegally skirted the ObamaCare filibuster, and if the 112th session begins by subverting the Rules of the Senate, then every bill will be as if the nuclear option were applied to it. You will get the Dream Act, the Public Option amendment to ObamaCare, federally funded abortion, the second amendment will be trashed, the Fairness Doctrine, cap and trade, Obama's treaties will no longer need a 60 vote ratification and we will have rule by United Nations decree, and many many other dangerous issues.

Again where does this leave us? The end to the filibuster will unleash legislative Armageddon. The 2012 election will be fixed to give the commies control in both houses and then it will be Katy bar the door.

The filibuster since 2008 has acted as a political trip wire in stopping the liberal fanatic onslaught. Pelosi and Reid gambled and won when they pushed ObamaCare through on a constitutional bluff. It was a very high stakes moment for them and in the gambit of installing Obama as an ineligible oval office squatter, it was an all in moment, passing ObamaCare, either by hook or ny crook. Soros must have been breathing heavily down their necks. But if we let the latest plan go through, we may as well kiss our collective asses goodbye as a nation, because then the question becomes academic and our demise will only be a matter of time.

Do not be lulled by rhetoric from the Left that suggests such talk is "extremism". Instead picture a long row of constitutional dominoes on a hill. At the top of the hill sits the "filibuster domino". If that domino falls, lock and load.

The article below also refers to newly elected republican senator Dan Coats of Indiana a 10 year DC veteran as being for the end of the filibuster. This stupidity is very troubling from a right wing politician and should serve as a warning bell as to his trustworthiness to the cause of liberty. He must have never heard of Thomas Jefferson the author of the constitution and is an illiterate, or he is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Steve
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Tax Debate Fuels Democratic Effort to Eliminate Filibuster in New Session

Published December 07, 2010
| FoxNews.com

Democratic lawmakers are ratcheting up a campaign to kill the filibuster after Republicans threatened last week to block any legislation until issues on tax cuts and the federal budget were resolved.

Senate Democrats, mostly junior members, are vowing next session to a majority vote that would eradicate the three-fifths vote requirement for legislation to move through the upper chamber.

Eliminating the filibuster, the preferred tool of obstruction by minority parties in the U.S. Senate, could make it easier for Democrats to pass President Obama's agenda. But the political complexion of the next Congress -- a Republican majority in the House and diminished Democratic presence in the Senate – complicates filibuster reform. Legislation that passes the GOP-controlled House might be preferable to a Republican minority in the Senate.

And in a twist of irony, some Senate Democrats are threatening to filibuster a deal that Obama cut with Republican leaders to extend the Bush tax cuts for all households, including the wealthiest ones, for two years and to renew federal unemployment insurance for 13 months.

Still, most Senate Republicans oppose reforming the filibuster process, and their 47 seats in the Senate next session is enough to block it.

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"There's just too much need for moving forward with action to address our serious economic situation and a number of other issues to not go forward on that basis," he said.

Filibustering, in which lawmakers use seemingly endless debate to block legislative action, has been around for decades but was rarely used until the civil rights era. An opposition filibuster can only be broken with 60 votes – a three-fifths majority.

Some Democrats argue that new rules can be adopted at the start of the next Congress by a simple majority in a procedure called the "Constitutional option."

Sen. Tom Udall, who has set up a page on his website promoting filibuster reform, has said he intends to make a motion on the first day of the new Congress to adopt rules by a simple majority vote.

"Senate rules are supposed to allow for substantive debate and to protect the views of the minority – as our founders intended," he writes. "Instead, they are abused to prevent the Senate from ever voting on critical legislation. The Senate must adopt rules that allow the institution to work for the middle class."

Sen. Jeff Merkley released a filibuster reform proposal last month. The central part of his plan would require senators to filibuster on the floor – a small step that he believes would only require a simple majority to pass instead of the two-thirds needed to eliminate the filibuster completely.

"There are many ways to address the current dysfunction of the Senate. But address it we must," he wrote. "It is essential, however, that we are prepared to live under the rules we propose currently as majority members when we are in the minority down the road. Any proposal that does not meet that test is not going to be a fair proposal and would subject to the claim that it is a power grab by the majority."

While the idea of filibuster reform is gaining momentum among Senate Democrats, it certainly didn't help candidates who voiced support for it on the campaign trail.

Alexi Ginannoulias lost in Illinois, as did Jack Conway
in Kentucky, Elaine Marshall in North Carolina, Lee Fisher in Ohio, Kendrick Meek in Florida, Paul Hodes in New Hampshire and Robin Carnahan in Missouri.