Political Quotes

“Here is the title of their piece, ``Let's Just Say It, The Republicans Are The Problem.'' They explain that in the past they looked at Congress and thought both parties were to blame. But on reflection, as they studied the facts--not the rhetoric but the facts--it was Republicans who are causing all the problems. Here is what they write: The filibuster, once relegated to a handful of major national issues in a given Congress, became a routine weapon of obstruction applied even to widely supported bills or Presidential nominations. All we have to do is watch the Senate or certainly when one is in the Senate we realize these scholars, Mann and Ornstein, are absolutely right. In this Congress, the 112th Congress, we have already seen 48 Republican filibusters; 48 times the Republicans stopped us from doing our work. But don't get the impression this was new behavior because it did not just start in the 112th Congress, it started way before. In the 111th Congress, which covered 2009 and 2010, Republicans conducted 91 filibusters. In the 110th Congress, 2007 and 2008, they conducted 112 filibusters. So far this year we have had 48 Republican filibusters. In the Congress before that we had 91, and the one before that we had 112. What does this mean? It means that in all those times we were unable to do the work of the American people because one party stopped it.…”