Even the liberal Washington Post says so. For one thing you don't need a filibuster to inact a cloture motion and Reid brought cloture motions when there were no filibusters. All part of his strategy to make the republicans look like obstructionist and you buy into it. And we should note that Obama was saying the same false statements. Deceit, deceit, deceit a well established pattern of this administration.
The 2/3rds majority vote was to protect the US people from one side trying to ram through extreme views, policies and candidates. If the people voted the senate with 2/3rds majority then there would be nothing the other side could do, but that didn't happen, so the minority has a voice representing the peoples vote. It's called checks and balances and keeps one side from going too far to the left or right of the country as a whole.
What Obama and most of the democrats have done with this nuclear option is saying we don't care what the minority of the people in the US want, we are going to do it our way and that is tyranny. This is a sad day in the history in the US when one party changes the rules for their own liking and trashing the minority voice.
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That's false and spin of Reid
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- America restores majority rule
- Restores? When was it not?
- Well I see, you guys don't mind when the rules are changed...as long as it's your side doing the changing n/t
- What Harry Reid used to believe...
- Well more like the Democrats realize their reign of corruption has been exposed.