Harry Reid Disagrees With Me! - Granite Grok

Harry Reid Disagrees With Me!

It's MY way, or the Nuke way!
It’s MY way, or the Nuke way!
Yeah, I know, that’s a shocker! Chances of Mike and Harry agreeing on policy – around zero!

OK, so what’s up? Ann Coulter has accurately called Democrats a mob, and Harry Reid is moving to implement pure mob rule, by taking the next step in converting our Constitutional Federal Republic into a pure mob-rule democracy.

In my piece, “There’s Too Much Democracy In America“, I noted the ongoing Progressive destruction of our Republic and its institutions, and how removing those pesky checks and balances was the preferred route of tyrants.   In particular, I wrote:

It is no accident ….. that it takes 2/3 of the Senate to ratify a treaty, that it took 2/3 of the senate originally to bring a bill to the floor (now 3/5), that the States used to control the Senate, and that the fights over rules for filibusters are so vehement.

Resistance is futile!
Resistance is futile!
And, vehement indeed, it is turning out to be. Never mind that Obama has had the vast majority of his nominees approved, and that most of the holds or filibusters were simply to force adequate disclosure before the GOP folded and approved even quite radical nominees. Harry Reid has made it quite clear that “resistance is futile”, and if he can’t railroad through nominees whenever he wants, he’ll move to eliminate the 60 vote cloture threshold altogether.

Upper houses of parliaments are intended to act as a moderating influence, or to represent constituencies which would be at risk from pure mob rule…… [Their] most important task is to delay, and force reconsideration of, flawed legislation, EG temporary insanities of the public or their directly elected representatives, outbreaks of populism, etc.

Yes, our Senate is supposed to do all that, and it was also supposed represent the states, but that layer of protection was stripped away 100 years ago. As the slippery slope continued, the threshold was lowered from 2/3 of all senators to 2/3 of senators present in 1959, from that to 3/5 of all senators in 1975.

But even this is too difficult for our mob rule overlords – Harry Reid and his cohorts want to make the senate just another majority vote chamber, like a deluxe house of Congress, thus removing one more layer of the intentional difficulty that was built into our Federal government to prevent flawed laws and bad appointments.

A Republic, if we can keep it, is beginning to look like a distant memory – we MUST throw these bums out in 2014!

Footnote: The creatures inside those Daleks are small, wizened, and malevolent…. Hmmm…. I think Harry Reid resembles that remark!!

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