The Community Leader continue to have problems with Leadership and Negotiations. "What’s at stake with all the congressional hardball? Senate Democrats frustrated by the delay on judges have threatened to revisit a months-old compromise on Senate rules. They say they could put in play the “nuclear option” – changing the Senate’s rules with only a bare majority vote to essentially end the power of the filibuster. The results of such a move would mean major upheaval in the tradition-bound US Senate. Had the Senate’s Republican leadership given in to the nuclear urge in 2005, “the upshot would have been that the Senate would have ceased to be the place it had always been – a place in which collegiality was the order of the day and each senator had as much power as any other to dictate the flow of events within the institution,” wrote law professors Michael Gerhardt and Richard Painter in a 2011 analysis for the American Constitution Society. Then, there’s the question of whether the White House and Congress can, in fact, come to an accord on student loan rates before they expire. And finally the president’s tone may risk the fragile relationship the he has attempted to build with some Republican senators. “Why didn’t he just send us three names” without the lecture? wondered Senator Alexander, who worked in a bipartisan group to head off a rules showdown earlier this year. “It’s unpresidential. It’s embarrassing for me.... He’s losing any capacity he’s going to have for Republican support for important issues by these kind of tactics. And that includes me.”"
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:32:39 +0000
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