Obama Administration Gets Behind Senator Reid's Filibuster Reform

     I've said this more than once, but lately I've felt like I've died and gone to Democrat Heaven. It started at the DNC convention which was so incisive in calling out Mitt Romney and clearly defining the party's support for our President.

     It's carried through to the post-election glow where we see the Democrats standing together shoulder to shoulder and insisting that elections have consequences and that the GOP must not stand in the people's way.

     It's been remarked more than once that the Democrats have so much discipline and cohesion you'd think there were: Republicans, or at least the way Republicans used to be.

     Now the President's team has clearly voiced support for the efforts of Senate Majority Harry Reid's plan to reform the obstructive Senate filibuster process that has grown so unwieldy.

     "Jumping squarely into the white-hot debate currently being waged in the Senate, the White House on Wednesday said it supports Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's efforts to change the rules of the upper chamber."

       "The President has said many times that the American people are demanding action," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement to The Huffington Post. "They want to see progress, not partisan delay games. That hasn't changed, and the President supports Majority Leader Reid's efforts to reform the filibuster process."

       "Over the past few years important pieces of legislation like the DREAM Act, the Paycheck Fairness Act, and the American Jobs Act weren't even allowed to be debated, and judicial nominations and key members of the administration are routinely forced to wait months for an up-or-down vote," Pfeiffer added. "The American people deserve a United States Senate that puts them first, instead of partisan delay."

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/obama-filibuster-reform_n_2204589.html

      This is new for the White House. Obama has never been this explicit in favor of filibuster reform before.

      "This endorsement of Reid's effort to reform the filibuster is the firmest White House statement to date on the matter. During last year's State of the Union address, President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to give judicial and "public service" nominees an up-or-down vote. But when Reid was contemplating a set of rules changes before the last Congress, the administration was largely ambivalent with its support and even less so with its engagement."

      Back in the old days when Democrats were Democrats-that is timid losers I dreamed of Democrats that would be like this. The next 4 years are their's for the taking and their's to lose.

      P.S. They really were timid. It wasn't until this cycle that they suddenly saw abortion as an issue that actually helps them electorally. Precviously it was kind of like a family secret that's too shameful to talk about in public.