New Hampshire’s Senator Judd Gregg, a big “majority rules” fan back when Republicans held the majority, has suddenly become a minority rights advocate. I just can’t imagine why.<\/p>\n
Way back when, Gregg was enthused<\/a> about using filibuster-proof reconciliation rules to pass ANWR drilling legislation: <\/p>\n … “The point, of course, is this: If you have 51 votes for your position, you win,” Gregg told his Senate colleagues on the floor.<\/p>\n He added, “Reconciliation is a rule of the Senate (that) has been used before for purposes exactly like this on numerous occasions… Is there something wrong with majority rules? I don’t think so.” <\/p>\n Responding to the argument that it’s wrong to use reconciliation on a domestic oil drilling measure, Gregg concluded, “We are using the rules of the Senate as they are set up to be used, and that happens to be the rule of the Senate.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course now that there’s a Democratic majority, Gregg has a rather different opinion and is leading the Republican fight<\/a> against passing health care reform under reconciliation rules: <\/p>\n Sen. Judd Gregg has hundreds of procedural objections ready for a healthcare plan Democrats leaders want to speed through the Senate.<\/p>\n Gregg (N.H.), the senior Republican on the Budget Committee, told the Hill in a recent interview that Republicans will wage a vicious fight if Democrats try to circumvent Senate rules and use a budget maneuver to pass a trillion dollar healthcare plan with a simple majority. […]<\/p>\n Gregg said that Republicans could file “hundreds” of points of order objections to the bill, each one requiring 60 votes to waive.<\/p>\n “We are very much engaged in taking a hard look at our rights under reconciliation,” Gregg said. \u201cIt would be very contentious.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n Ode To Senator Judd “Majority Rules, Except When It Doesn’t” Gregg “Majority rule is just great,” Related Posts: Open Limerick To President Obama;<\/a> Republicans Were For \u201cDeath Panels\u201d Before They Were Against Them;<\/a> Tantrum Politics;<\/a> and Waterloo Lies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Hampshire’s Senator Judd Gregg, a big “majority rules” fan back when Republicans held the majority, has suddenly become a minority rights advocate. I just can’t imagine why. Way back when, Gregg was enthused about using filibuster-proof reconciliation rules to pass ANWR drilling legislation: … “The point, of course, is this: If you have 51 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,20,52,159,877,11,154,6,7,3,9,12],"tags":[881,878,830,842,2858,476,880,879,841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nSaid Gregg in the drilling debate.
\n“You’ve got 51 votes,
\nThen you win.” Check his quotes.
\nYet 51 Dem votes don’t rate.<\/p>\n