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Get Bent, Ezra Klein

Posted on | July 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

Ezra speaks in the comPost, emphsis mine:

The constitutional option gets its name from Article I, Section V of the Constitution, which states that “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings.” In order to fulfill this constitutional order, the Senate must be able to, well, determine its rules. A filibuster, technically, is a way to stop the Senate from determining something by refusing to allow it to move to a vote. Because stopping the Senate from considering its own rules would be unconstitutional, the chair can rule against the filibuster, and the Senate could then move to change its rules on a majority vote.

One caveat: Many people, including Udall himself, believe this has to happen at the beginning of a new Congress. If it doesn’t happen at the beginning of a new Congress, then Congress is considered to have acquiesced to the previous Congress’s rules, and a filibuster against further rule changes wouldn’t interrupt the constitutional right to determine the rules.

When, exactly, ever, is the Senate stopped from considering its own rules?

This is one of the fascinating things about Left-think: when there is some wisely considered high standard to be met, you get this effect of working the referees.

Ezra, even if you congratulate yourself about having swell intentions, your ideas are those of boob. Your brand of thinking is firmly in line with the bi-partisan Federal over-reach that has resulted in 14 trillion in debt.

That filibuster feature is the only thing restraining this atrocious Congress. Polls expressing the will of the people and demonstrations have not. The filibuster is only a bug in the eyes of the truly clueless dungbeatles, among whom you may be crawling, Klein.

I wish there was some laboratory setting in which you could feel the unrestrained, hellish results of your anti-Constitutional ideas, Ezra, without doing further damage to the country. Yours is the road, not to some Socialist golden age, but rather a full-on despotism.

You can continue to label failure success, or say there is some reason the Senate cannot consider its rules. But don’t expect support from anyone having a grasp of the need for limited government.

Category: Progressivism

Comments

7 Responses to “Get Bent, Ezra Klein”

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  2. Stinky
    July 28th, 2010 @ 2:40 pm

    In 2005, Klein argued against what he now advocates:
    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/07/28/being-a-liberal-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/

  3. Stinky
    July 28th, 2010 @ 10:40 am

    In 2005, Klein argued against what he now advocates:
    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/07/28/being-a-liberal-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry/

  4. Rob
    July 28th, 2010 @ 3:11 pm

    Yeah, no fillbuster makes bipartisanship kinda of pointless.

  5. Rob
    July 28th, 2010 @ 11:11 am

    Yeah, no fillbuster makes bipartisanship kinda of pointless.

  6. Mikey NTH
    July 28th, 2010 @ 3:39 pm

    There is already a rule that deals with fillibusters (endless debate) and that is cloture (ending the debate and voting). So Ezra would learn if he opened a high school government text and studied it.

  7. Mikey NTH
    July 28th, 2010 @ 11:39 am

    There is already a rule that deals with fillibusters (endless debate) and that is cloture (ending the debate and voting). So Ezra would learn if he opened a high school government text and studied it.