richardhutnik said:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/28/AR2010122803998.html When Lyndon Johnson was majority leader in the Senate, he needed to file for cloture to end a filibuster only once. During President Obama's first two years, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture 84 times. To put that in perspective, the filibuster was used more in 2009 than in the 1950s and 1960s combined. Anything Obama tried to do was filibustered duiring the first two years, to the extent a having complete control would do it. But, anyhow, see whatever you want to see here, it is easier on you. |
ummm... filibusters can be stoped, you know with 60 votes, something they had, you know a supermajority, they could stop any filibuster they wanted