McConnell Tells Reid He Will Not Negotiate With Him and Will Allow Filibuster on Reid Bill
Click here to view this media Well, it looks at though we’re in for a weekend of political theater. As Lawrence O’Donnell noted when talking to Sen. Kent Conrad about the latest coming out of the Senate tonight, it appears Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is not done pulling political stunts. Apparently McConnell just told Leader Reid that he will not negotiate directly with him, and will only negotiate with President Obama. McConnell also told Reid that he would not allow Reid’s bill to pass with a simple majority vote, so in other words, he’s going to allow the Senate to filibuster. This means that the Senate would not be allowed to vote on Reid’s bill until Sunday at 1am and in the mean time, the House would be voting on Reid’s bill sometime tomorrow. If McConnell wants to filibuster Reid’s bill, I say it’s time for them to break out the cots, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen since the Senate already adjourned tonight. It would be nice to see a clean bill pass that simply raises the debt ceiling instead of these bills they’ve been negotiating passing. I guess we’ll find out shortly if that’s too much to hope for or not. In the mean time, they’re taking this dangerous game of chicken with our economy right up to the wire with more stalling from Republicans.
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McConnell Tells Reid He Will Not Negotiate With Him and Will Allow Filibuster on Reid Bill
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on July 29, 2011. Filed under