Tuesday, 12/2/14, Public Square

Sunday, 6/29/14, Public Square

Sunday, 5/25/14, Public Square

Sunday, 5/26/13, Public Square

Wednesday, 2/27/13, Public Square

Thursday, 7/12/12, Public Square

By holding a pointless vote to repeal ACA, House Republicans are doing their part to sabotage the economic recovery so they can regain the White House.

 

Monday, 7/9/12, Public Square

Saturday, 6/23/12, Public Square

Take a look at how the GOP (the minority in the Senate) has been obstructing progress.

 

 

Thursday, 10/6/11, Public Square

Friday, 9/16/11, Public Square

Friday, 9/9/11, Public Square

Senate GOP Plays Politics

Using arcane Senate rules that allow individual lawmakers to grind presidential appointments to a halt, the Treasury Department has seen a number of posts go unfilled for long stretches over unrelated complaints from GOP Senators. The holds are anonymous and thus their reasons are often not made public, but The Washington Post finds that the holdup centered on issues that were unaffected by the appointments in question, including a plan in Canada to ban fruit-flavored cigarettes and a dispute over online gambling. After President Obama directly challenged the GOP to speed up the process in February, over two dozen appointees were confirmed, but Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), who also blocked unemployment benefits earlier this year, still has holds on two senior Treasury officials.

GOP craps on America

How bad is GOP obstructionism in the Senate? Republican senators are on pace to more than triple the previous record for uses of a filibuster in a Congress. In 2009, there were a record 112 cloture votes (the number of cloture votes is how you measure the use of filibusters). So far in 2010, there have already been more than 40 cloture votes. The previous record was in 1995-1996, when the Republican-controlled Senate required 50 cloture votes.

Even if these tactics seem to please ‘the base’ of the GOP, what makes them think it will appeal to moderates?  Is this a winning political strategy?  What do you think?