Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP’s ability to filibuster bills.
Speaking in the wake of Tuesday’s election, which boosted Senate Democrats’ numbers slightly, Mr. Reid
said he won’t end filibusters altogether but that the rules need to
change so that the minority party cannot use the legislative blocking
tool as often.
“I think that the rules have been abused and that
we’re going to work to change them,” he told reporters. “We’re not going
to do away with the filibuster but we’re going to make the Senate a more meaningful place.”
Republicans, who have 47 of the chamber’s 100 seats in the current Congress,
have repeatedly used that strong minority to block parts of President
Obama’s agenda on everything from added stimulus spending to his
judicial picks. A filibuster takes 60 senators to overcome it.
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The Obama campaign apparently didn't look backwards into history when
selecting its new campaign slogan, "Forward" — a word with a long and
rich association with European Marxism.
Many Communist and radical
publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had
the name "Forward!" or its foreign cognates. Wikipedia has an entire
section called "Forward (generic name of socialist publications)."
"The
name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political
terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist,
communist and other left-wing newspapers and publications," the online
encyclopedia explains.
The slogan "Forward!" reflected the
conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements
reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism
and into socialism and communism.
