This arbitrary and capricious rule change by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, is not only unethical and in need of being brought before the Senate Ethics Committee by Senate Republicans, it is purposefully unconstitutional. The net result of this change is that the role of the minority party in the Senate is harmfully diminished---harmful to the elected U. S. Senators and their ability to fully represent their constituents who elected them to do so---and harmful to the equal protection and treatment mandated by the U. S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause for all American citizens. Another result is the silencing of citizens’ and their duly elected Senators’ freedom of speech and expression, both mandated by the First Amendment to the Constitution, for it denies Republican Senators of their elected right to fully speak and represent their constituents. The Senate Majority Leader and other Democrat Senators have the right to participate in making rules for the Senate to operate under, but they do not have the right to discriminate against and silence the voice of any currently serving U. S. Senator or American citizen in order to turn the U. S. Senate into a one-party political entity. This discriminatory action by Senate Majority Leader Reid, no doubt in full concert with his fellow Democrat Senators, should not be allowed to stand and is, perhaps, grounds for a class action lawsuit by conservative Americans to regain their constitutional right to full and equal representation in the U. S. Senate, since they are being denied their voices in the U. S. Senate by the Democrats’ ham-handed political hit designed to make them and their voice in government irrelevant. “Andrew McCarthy: Senate Now Under Law of the Jungle” “Its the law of the jungle on Capitol Hill now that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has enacted the nuclear option, giving Democratic lawmakers more power, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy says. If they can change this rule on a dime, they can change any rule on the dime … What that ends up meaning is that you basically have the law of the jungle, McCarthy told The Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV. Basically Thomas Jefferson wrote the rules that the Senate operates under. Theyve been changed and tweaked over time, but you know were dealing with rules that have been in effect for a very, very long time. And if youve now struck a procedure where it only takes 51 votes to change the rule in effect you really have no rule because every time they don’t like them, theyll just change them. McCarthy, former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said he was disturbed by Secretary of State John Kerrys comment that there is common ground between the U.S. and Iran because the Iranian Embassy in Lebanon was recently attacked by al-Qaida. Iran has been attacking American embassies for 30 years and American diplomatic installations and American personnel overseas, possibly even in the United States, said McCarthy, author of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy. In fact, the Iranian regime was born out of an attack in 1979 on the American embassy in Iran. So for Kerry to make a statement like that is sort of mind-boggling. newsmax/newswidget/harry-reid-nuclear-law-jungle/2013/11/21/id/538007?promo_code=F492-1&utm_source=Test_Newsmax_Feed&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:59:04 +0000