{"id":9973,"date":"2013-02-15T04:16:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2013-02-15T04:16:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:16:57","slug":"the-filibastards-struck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/the-filibastards-struck\/","title":{"rendered":"The Filibastards Struck!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Republican Party made history by filibustering the confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary.  Never before has a minority blocked a cabinet level appointment.  This leaves the Defense Department in a state of transition, while we have troops in the field, while they go on vacation.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Filibastards\"The White House has said that President Barack Obama "stands strongly behind" Senator Chuck Hagel as his nominee for Defense Secretary despite a move by the Republicans for a full-scale filibuster of his nomination.<\/p>\n

"The President believes that Senator Hagel would do a wonderful job in a very important role, which is leading the Department of Defense at a challenging time for our country," Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One that took Obama to Decatur, Georgia, on Thursday.<\/p>\n

In an unprecedented move in the Senate earlier in the day, the GOP senators succeeded in blocking Hagel’s nomination as a cloture vote fell short of the 60-vote threshold the Upper House needed to move toward a final confirmation vote, which in effect is a filibuster.<\/p>\n

Although the Senate vote — 58 to 40 — paves the way to continue debate on the presidential defense nominee, the White House expressed hope that Hagel would eventually be confirmed when the Senate returns from recess on February 25\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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These are the filibastards:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Alexander (R-TN)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Ayotte (R-NH)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Barrasso (R-WY)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Blunt (R-MO)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Boozman (R-AR)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Burr (R-NC)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Chambliss (R-GA)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Coats (R-IN)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Coburn (R-OK)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Corker (R-TN)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Cornyn (R-TX)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Crapo (R-ID)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Cruz (R-TX)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Enzi (R-WY)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Fischer (R-NE)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Flake (R-AZ)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Graham (R-SC)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Grassley (R-IA)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Heller (R-NV)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Hoeven (R-ND)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Inhofe (R-OK)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Isakson (R-GA)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Johnson (R-WI)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Kirk (R-IL)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Lee (R-UT)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

McCain (R-AZ)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

McConnell (R-KY)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Moran (R-KS)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Paul (R-KY)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Portman (R-OH)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Reid (D-NV)<\/font><\/p>\n

Risch (R-ID)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Roberts (R-KS)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Rubio (R-FL)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Scott (R-SC)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Sessions (R-AL)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Shelby (R-AL)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Thune (R-SD)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Toomey (R-PA)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Wicker (R-MS)<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hatch (R-UT)<\/font><\/strong> voted present. Vitter (R-LA)<\/font><\/strong> did not vote. Reid’s NO vote was a procedural switch, to enable him to bring it up again.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow and Andrea Mitchell discussed this outrage.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Rachel agrees with the position I took yesterday<\/a>? She also blames the Nevada Leg Hound, Harry Reid.  Where Reid\u2019s claim to protect the filibuster for a future Democratic minority falls short is this.  If the Republicans ever have a majority again, you may be sure, the filibuster rule will be gone on day one.  After abusing the rule so severely, for so long, there is no way that they would risk being on the receiving end.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Republican Party made history by filibustering the confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary.  Never before has a minority blocked a cabinet level appointment.  This leaves the Defense Department in a state of transition, while we have troops in the field, while they go on vacation. The White House has said that President […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}