Harry Reid: The Bully on the Playground

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Harry Reid: The Bully on the Playground

 

 

By: Michael Hammond (Diary) | November 27th, 2012 at 04:55 PM

 

Remember the really nasty bully on the school playground? The guy who would use force and intimidation to beat up the other kids? And on that rare occasion when he was actually losing, he’d just change the rules. By brute force. Because he could.

 

Well, he’s probably stocking shelves at WalMart now. But a slimier, more vicious, infinitely more dangerous bully has now emerged on the national scene.

 

And his name is Harry Reid. He’s the guy who’s trying to change the Senate rules. Illegally and unconstitutionally. By brute force. Because he can.

 

Under Rule V, Paragraph 2, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the Senate keeps its rules, from Congress to Congress, unless the Senate changes them. And, to do that, under Rule XXII, you need two-thirds of the senators present and voting to shut down debate. (The cloture threshold on rules changes is deliberately different from cloture on other matters.)

 

Rule V, Paragraph 2, exists because the Senate is a “continuing body,”