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Sen. Reid’s Website Scrubbed of 2005 Comments Opposing Filibuster Reform

Dec. 1, 2012 9:36pm

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced earlier this month that he may take the unusual step of using a simple majority vote to limit filibusters. Yes, Sen. Reid may take steps to limit filibusters, the one recourse parties in the minority have to hold up legislation they oppose.

“Minority parties in the Senate use filibusters — parliamentary delays — to slow or kill legislation. They can only be ended by 60 votes — a margin neither party can achieve without some cooperation from the other side,” the Associated Press notes.

Democrats accuse Republicans of abusing filibusters while Republicans say they have no choice because Reid blocks them from presenting amendments. The Nevada senator, in turn, says Republicans use too much time pushing amendments that “make political statements or that are designed to derail bills,” the AP notes.

“Reid’s plan would forbid the use of filibusters when a bill is initially being brought to the Senate floor for debate and require filibustering senators to actually be on the Senate floor, a long-abandoned practice,” the report adds.

Huh. That’s funny. You know, as Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski reminds us, there was a time (2005, to be specific) when Sen. Reid totally loved the filibuster and defended it from attempts to reform it:

Screen Grabs Show Sen. Harry Reid Repeatedly Defended the Filibuster from ReformScreen Grabs Show Sen. Harry Reid Repeatedly Defended the Filibuster from Reform

Screen Grabs Show Sen. Harry Reid Repeatedly Defended the Filibuster from ReformScreen Grabs Show Sen. Harry Reid Repeatedly Defended the Filibuster from ReformScreen Grabs Show Sen. Harry Reid Repeatedly Defended the Filibuster from ReformScreen Grabs Show Sen. Harry Reid Repeatedly Defended the Filibuster from ReformScreen Grabs Show Sen. Harry Reid Repeatedly Defended the Filibuster from ReformOddly enough, the above statements have disappeared from the Nevada senator’s website.

Weird, right?

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The Associated Press contributed to this report. Featured image courtesy Getty Images.

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  • barber2
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:25am

    The Democrats are big on MIC checks, Glitter bombings, bull-horns, trials by media, and character assassinations . Thus, Reid’s ” change” here is just typical. Sort of a congressional form of the MIC check. This is exactly what I expected from Obama II . Imagine this will get much worse . The Bill of Rights will be sorely tested with these Alinsky- trained ” community agitator” lawyers. This is all about the TRANSFER of power and money. Big Brother is a vengeful bully .

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    • BehindBlueEyes
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 11:02am

      After the election fiasco progressives have started to show signs of delusions of grandeur. They’re been embolden by the win and see it as an endorsement of their fundamental transformation of America agenda.

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 3:04pm

      They’re also big on fillibustering civil rights proposals. Remember Byrd? The KKK Kingpin?

      I can’t separate Harry Reid and Byrd in my mind’s eye. Just two old guys who have it out for “the little people”

      Remember when Harry Reid was complaining about the “stench of tourists in D.C.” ? Reid is just another in a long line of look-down-your-nose progressives.

      I have NOTHING in common with this tyrant.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on December 3, 2012 at 9:51am

      Time to “change” NO-READ-REID’S ideas….by ‘CHANGE”-ing him with a Consevetive-Republican in next election!!

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      G-WHIZ  
  • scrapadapolis
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:20am

    I want to ask everyone on the blaze one question that I learned in the 5 grade.What ever happened to”checks and balances”?Was it some how lost when Carter held office?

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    • barber2
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:43am

      The Constitutional protection afforded under the establishment of ” Checks and balances ” is being destroyed by the executive branch’s use of the ” czars ” and by their manipulation of truth through their Lap Dog MSM. The Obama Administration is like a repeat of the National Socialists in Germany and the Communists in the USSR. Both were Big Brother / totalitarian governments which used intimidation and the media to control the population . From MIC checks to OWS to SEIU to the character assassinations in the MSM, we have seen examples of all of this from the Obama Chicago radical Democrats. Dangerous bunch of jack-booted bullies. Learned their Saul Alinsky well.

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    • UNALIEN
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 12:23pm

      the “check” is in the mail and “balance” will be due, prepare for a much lower standard of living and an inflationary depression

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      UNALIEN  
  • attitudijudi
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:45am

    Busted!

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 1:58pm

      Because the Las Vegas, Reno uncouth thugs support Harry Reid and have him eternally on their payroll, I refuse to even stop in those places anymore. They found a dishonest Patsy to do their illegal bidding and Harry was the winner. I used to love Reno/Vegas, but after years of seeing how ole’ Harry sits up and barks for all of the Good ‘ole Boys, I gave up the good old tymes in Nevada.

      There are few good people left, like Mr. Wynn.

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  • tothepoint
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:23am

    Reid, Obama, and the rest of their gang flip flop as much as anyone on issues that they think will get them votes, money and power.
    Of course, they call is “Evolving,” but it is flip flopping.
    They are all Proven Serial Liars.

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  • Winedude
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 7:59am

    Old Harry has gone overboard this time. The only rule change the Senate needs is to make a senator that threatens a filibuster get up there and speak. This current nonsense of the opposition party saying that we want to filibuster, you don’t have the votes for cloture, so that’s the end of debate. At BEST this is pure bull crap. May ‘em talk, I say!

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  • Sus1247
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 7:57am

    The article above can be summed up using only this statement:

    “Mr. President, the filibuster is not a “procedural gimmick.” The filibuster is an important check on executive power and part of every Senator’s right to free speech in the United States Senate.”

    -Harry Reid, on the floor of the Senate, Tuesday, May 17, 2005

    I hope the Republican Senators (Mitch McConnell, that means you!) will use this on the floor of the Senate and in the media to shut down Harry Reid.

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    • Winedude
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:01am

      You are absolutely correct with the exception that today’s senate doesn’t actually make the senators that are part of a filibuster speak. They should be required to speak until either cloture is voted on to end the debate or the filibustering senator yields the floor.

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  • truthsurfer
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 7:52am

    Harry reidtard is a PoS as are all democrats. Does he and his kenyan boyfriend not realize they cannot do anything without the republican house. The house should send Harry reidtard every bill with huge spending cuts and let him chew on it.

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  • BehindBlueEyes
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 6:50am

    Progressives will chip away at the Constitution and the process until they have the ability to do anything they want. The commie in chief is already using every back door he can find.

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  • 1776freedomofspeech
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 6:24am

    Blatant, in your face BS from the democratic party Senator Reid.

    MSNBC probably will not report this.

    Maybe S.E. Cupp will bring it up during her “panel discussions”.

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  • HKS
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 6:16am

    It would appear that the Democrats have visions of a dictatorship, that’s the only thing that would explain their interest in this issue. With the way they raped the last election with all their vote thieves in place, they could just be right. We, without a doubt, have the worst election system on the planet. That may be a more pressing problem than the debt.

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  • bikerdogred1
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 5:23am

    Reid,just a liar,his last words will be a lie,soon I hope.

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  • rickroland
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 3:34am

    This is not really news, as it has been established for some time now, that Harry Reid is, and has been, an outspoken hypocrite.

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  • raderby
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 3:17am

    All part of coalescing of power grab on top of power grab. True nature exposed. MSM (mostly) and general populace stone quiet. What else is new? Same old same old.

    Question: how does an sub-average lawyer, not-so-rich Senator become a millionaire? The pay is not enough. If a Senator gets richer in his term, that should end his term.
    Question: isn’t Reid part of the 1%? Why should we be governed by him or anyone like him?
    Question: Reid was a “former boxer” – what weight class? Bantam poop?
    Question: why no investigation of Reid’s finances and financial gains while in office?
    QUESTION: why the plosives from Harry? He think that makes his speech clearer? Listen to his rendering of the word “republican” – pure windy poetry.

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  • Triple7
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 3:11am

    Has anybody learned from the last election?The media will not report this or Dear Leaders past words. The New Bolsheviks can change the past.
    Harry Reid s comments are not going to matter.

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    • seek.the.truth
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 7:57am

      Feels to me like truth doesn’t matter to anyone any more. How many times have we seen lies exposed only to have it swept back under the rug by the MSM? Harry Reeds stance on this issue in 2005 will never come to light for the under-informed general population.

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 3:02am

    Question: if a Senator puts something on his web site and later scrubs it … Did he really say it?
    This is along the same question of : If a man is in the woods and says something even though no women is within 100 miles IS HE STILL WRONG?

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 2:14am

    Harry, thinking people aren’t going to forget about what you said about the Republicans abusing their majority power. Geez, there’s videos and everything. Now think about this Harry. If the “filibuster” is ended in the Senate, the Comiecrats will have to abide by this change when they are in the minority.

    Yes, we know that you think that it will be President Obama until the end of his life, but most of us are not on board for that.

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  • INTOODEEP
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 1:20am

    I just want to b***h slap the little twerp and kick him in his lil squirrel n**s, pos phoney sissy !!!

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 3:29am

      I cannot believe the bastard didn’t DIE when he was hit from behind in his car. Too bad he wasn’t on foot.

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    • djeffcoat
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 8:28am

      Reid is a hypocritical, creepy old goat. Too bad he’s not an Inuit. They could put him on an iceberg and cast him out to sea.

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  • FreeCarolJoy
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 1:03am

    He is a lying, two-faced B*****D. Sorry to say he is from Nevada my place of birth. He turns my stomach. Ya know he is a Mormon, but that is never brought up.

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 3:32am

      He should be scrubbed raw with steel wool, then thrown in a vat of rubbing alcohol THEN hung! …with his clothes put back on, of course.

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on December 2, 2012 at 12:44am

    When is someone going to SCRUB reid???

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  • UNALIEN
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 11:06pm

    Obama,, we need to rise above the “ends justify the means” mentality

    And the dear leader Obama defended the filibuster in 2005… TODAY, not so much

    “What they don’t expect is for one party – be it Republican or Democrat – to change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet.

    The American people want less partisanship in this town, but everyone in this chamber knows that the majority chooses to end the filibuster. If they choose to change the rules and put an end to Democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse.

    Now I understand that Republicans are getting a lot of pressure to do this from factions outside the chamber, but we need to rise above the “ends justify the means” mentality because we’re here to answer to the people – all of the people – not just the ones that are wearing our particular party label.

    “If the right of free and open debate is taken away from the minority party, and the millions of Americans who asked us to be their voice, I fear that the already partisan atmosphere in Washington will be poisoned to the point where no one will be able to agree on anything. That doesn’t serve anyone’s best interests, and it certainly isn’t what the patriots who founded this democracy had in mind. We owe the people who sent us here more than that – we owe them much more.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 10:55pm

    It’s funny how all those liberal progressives support free speech, free sex, free drugs and free Gov stuff but, as soon as they get caught saying something backwards to communism it’s always,,,

    Scrub-a-dub-dub…..

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    • Pantloadian
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:36am

      DUH MONK . . . It was the Republicans in 2005 who wanted to “reform” the filibuster. But you choose to ignore that half of the story. No wonder they call you duh.

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      Pantloadian  
    • UNALIEN
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 10:16am

      @RED DIAPER BABY

      You fail to recognize the hypocrisy from Reid and Obama that goes against the phoney narrative that Dems are for “democracy”, the reality is they are Sociopaths who will say and do whatever it takes to advance Statist Tyranny.

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      UNALIEN  
  • INTOODEEP
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 10:14pm

    What a sniveling little lying phoney he is. He should be rotting in prison, the thieving pervert…!!!

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    INTOODEEP  
    • barber2
      Posted on December 2, 2012 at 9:29am

      IN: There is something about this little weasel that makes you wish you could be a vengeful God with a fly-swatter . ( forgive me, Lord ! )…

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  • Silversmith
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 10:09pm

    If that doesn’t give you a clue to what’s coming ……..

    Silversmith

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  • TSUNAMI_22
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 10:01pm

    Good bye Lance Gibson. Take your reported r’tarded spam elsewhere.

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  • lylejk
    Posted on December 1, 2012 at 9:48pm

    Too late idiot. You’re words will be played over and over and over again. Best to keep the rules as is before you make a jacka$$ out of yourself. It’s already bad enough that it’s the mascot of your party. Ever noticed that if you turn a map of the U.S. upside-down, it resembles a jacka$$; no such thing as coincidences. :)

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