Leftists Continue War Against Filibuster

Yet another leftist has attacked the Senate filibuster. The chorus from the left is growing and one can only assume that this coordinated attack is evidence that liberal Senators are readying a challenge to the Senate’s filibuster. The left absolutely hates the fact that they have to deal with that pesky Constitution that protects and promotes transparency, debate and dissent. They are intent on tossing aside the idea in the Constitution that we are a democratic republic with States being represented by two Senators with the right to extended debate and unlimited amendment.

This conspiracy by left wingers has a specific goal — to abolish dissent in the Senate, exterminate Republican participation in the democratic process, and marginalize moderate Democrats. It seems the left is willing to stomp all over the Senate’s rules to get a public option, regulate Wall Street into the Stone Age and pass global warming legislation before the end of one of the coldest winters on record in American history.

Harold Meyerson groused in the L.A. Times that the Senate has yet to follow the House in establishing government run health care through the establishment of a Public Option for ObamaCare:

The House delivered: It passed healthcare reform with a “public option”; it passed financial reform legislation; it passed cap-and-trade legislation that would slow global warming. But then it sent those bills to the Senate, where American progress grinds to a halt. The Senate’s filibuster rule enables the minority party to hold up any legislation that doesn’t have a 60-vote supermajority.

The Constitution explicitly states in Article I, Section 5 that “each house may determine the rule of its proceedings.” It seems that the left has a very short term goal of getting the government to become the de facto CEO of private health insurers, the financial sector and the energy producers of the U.S. economy by ignoring the Constitution and tossing aside the Senate’s filibuster rule.

In addition to Meyerson’s hatred of free market capitalism, he voices a hostility to the idea, as embodied by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution, that each state has equal representation in one of the two chambers of Congress.

Worse yet, the Senate’s rules make even more of a mockery of the principle of majority rule. With Republicans determined to keep Congress from doing its job, 60 votes are required to pass any significant legislation. As a consequence, Obama’s legislative agenda has been hostage to the demands and obsessions of the Senate’s most conservative Democrats, a number of whom — Nebraska’s Ben Nelson and North Dakota’s Kent Conrad, for instance — come from states with more ghost towns than cities.

This liberal hates Red State America and the idea that the Senate is a body consisting of 100 members from 50 states, because some conservative leaning states with smaller populations have the same influence as those from bigger left leaning states. It seems that every day another left winger mounts a case against the filibuster and we should expect more in the next few days and weeks.

Meyerson is the self proclaimed “most liberal voice on the (Washington) Post op-ed page.” Those that hate big government need to keep a close eye on the Senate to make sure that this left wing war against the filibuster does not get momentum. Remember that the filibuster is constitutional and essential for freedom.