{"id":10727,"date":"2009-12-16T18:16:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:16:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-16T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:29:58","slug":"john-burton-attacks-lieberman-calls-for-end-to-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/16\/john-burton-attacks-lieberman-calls-for-end-to-filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"John Burton Attacks Lieberman, Calls For End To Filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Democratic Party Chair John Burton sent an email this morning to the CDP list calling on respondents<\/a> to email Senator Harry Reid to end the filibuster. Quoted from the email:<\/p>\n

I’ll get right to the point: I’m through trying to figure Lieberman out. I’m through with holding my nose as I watch Democrats cobble together compromise after compromise on his behalf only to have him turn his back on us and on the millions of Americans in desperate need of reform….<\/p>\n

Enough is enough. It’s time to end Joe Lieberman’s reign of terror and restore democracy to the Senate by changing Rule 22 and ending the filibuster….<\/p>\n

Make no mistake: the threat of filibuster has resulted in too many victories for the status quo and is the single greatest impediment to real and lasting change in health care and beyond. With critical issues like climate change coming up on the legislative agenda, it’s clear that we can no longer afford to continue with business as usual in the Senate…<\/p>\n

We have the votes to do it — it only takes a simple majority to end this anti-democratic practice. All we need is the will of the Democratic leadership in the Senate, and that’s where you come in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously this is primarily intended as a list-builder for the CDP. But it’s also a significant call for fundamental change in the way the US Senate operates. Burton will get no argument from me about the undemocratic nature of the filibuster – one of Obama’s most important mistakes was his failure to call for an end to the filibuster upon taking office, something that might have been possible back in January and could have spared him some of the headaches he’s dealt with this year.<\/p>\n

Of course, California has two rather powerful US Senators. Has Burton delivered this “kill the filibuster” message to Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer? If Burton is serious about killing the filibuster, and I hope he is, then he should have no hesitation calling on our own Senators to support an end to the filibuster.<\/p>\n

…additionally, I’m with Jane Hamsher on this, Lieberman is an easy scapegoat<\/a>; Reid and Obama bear far more responsibility for what has happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California Democratic Party Chair John Burton sent an email this morning to the CDP list calling on respondents<\/a> to email Senator Harry Reid to end the filibuster. Quoted from the email:<\/p>\n

I’ll get right to the point: I’m through trying to figure Lieberman out. I’m through with holding my nose as I watch Democrats cobble together compromise after compromise on his behalf only to have him turn his back on us and on the millions of Americans in desperate need of reform….<\/p>\n

Enough is enough. It’s time to end Joe Lieberman’s reign of terror and restore democracy to the Senate by changing Rule 22 and ending the filibuster….<\/p>\n

Make no mistake: the threat of filibuster has resulted in too many victories for the status quo and is the single greatest impediment to real and lasting change in health care and beyond. With critical issues like climate change coming up on the legislative agenda, it’s clear that we can no longer afford to continue with business as usual in the Senate…<\/p>\n

We have the votes to do it — it only takes a simple majority to end this anti-democratic practice. All we need is the will of the Democratic leadership in the Senate, and that’s where you come in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously this is primarily intended as a list-builder for the CDP. But it’s also a significant call for fundamental change in the way the US Senate operates. Burton will get no argument from me about the undemocratic nature of the filibuster – one of Obama’s most important mistakes was his failure to call for an end to the filibuster upon taking office, something that might have been possible back in January and could have spared him some of the headaches he’s dealt with this year.<\/p>\n

Of course, California has two rather powerful US Senators. Has Burton delivered this “kill the filibuster” message to Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer? If Burton is serious about killing the filibuster, and I hope he is, then he should have no hesitation calling on our own Senators to support an end to the filibuster.<\/p>\n

…additionally, I’m with Jane Hamsher on this, Lieberman is an easy scapegoat<\/a>; Reid and Obama bear far more responsibility for what has happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2N1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}