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Senator Tom Harkin (Dem) is smarter than you:

Sen. Harkin has an editorial in the Huffington Post, where he speaks about filibusters, and how they need to change. 

Here’s a clip:  

“Currently, it takes 60 votes in the Senate to “invoke cloture” — in other words, to end debate on a legislative measure and bring it to a vote. My legislation would permit a decreasing number of Senators to invoke cloture on a given measure. On the first cloture attempt, 60 votes would be required. But, over a period of days or weeks, the number of votes required would fall to a simple majority of 51 Senators.”

The article starts off with the words “republican abuse” about 241 times, as if Senator Harkin is attempting to set up a filibuster of his own, drawing out his opinion with longer, wordier opinions. 

In the article, not one Democratic filibuster is mentioned: apparently Dems poop roses. 

Listen, Harkin: just because you’re not getting your way does not mean it’s time to change the document this country has been based on. 

Being able to change the system to get your way is not the democratic process–it’s bush league.  The rules of the Senate, involving filibustering, has been around for a long time–and just because you’ve not gotten your way doesn’t mean you get to take your ball and go home.

If Sen. Harkin had his way, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington would be re-titled into: Mr. Smith Stays Home and Sticks It in his Ear. 

Sen. Harkin has also said some other concerning things of late, including his insistence that the stimulus bill is working:

“More than one-third of the bill, $288 billion, went to tax cuts mostly benefiting the middle class. Another third of the bill, $275 billion, went directly to the states. Facing huge budget shortfalls, state and local government were preparing to lay off hundreds of thousands of public employees. So if your child’s teacher was not laid off last year, odds are you can thank the recovery act.“

So, he wants to change democracy to curtail to his needs.  Also, he is using the same argument as the administration is regarding the stimulus experiment: Some random person who has kept a job = a job saved. 

Harkin sees things that you and I can’t see.  He knows the strings, sees the code of the Matrix apparently.  He knows when unnamed people have been saved from losing their job without ever seeing any data or feedback from this person.  He’s like a Jedi. 

In fact, Jedi Harkin sounds like a good running name for the upcoming election.  “These are not the droids you were looking for.  The stimulus has saved your job, move along.” 

And here’s a free one for you: Can someone explain to me how stimulus money went to tax cuts?  Why was it necessary to allocate money so that you could not take people’s money?  He’s not giving us a tax break–he’s setting up shop as a loan shark.

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