The Party of No continues its work. This time, they refused to give a single vote for cloture on the Small Business bill that Sen. Mary Landrieu is trying to usher through the upper chamber. First they made the Democrats strip out some aid to farmers because Mitch McConnell doesn’t think farmers run small businesses. Then they continued to refuse to allow a vote because they weren’t allowed to offer an endless number of impertinent amendments. Agriculture is unrelated to small business, but their poison amendments are.
Reid and McConnell are in negotiations over amendments and this bill still might pass. But this is causing more pointless delay. And delay is central to the Party of No strategy. The longer we spend debating a bipartisan bill that should pass easily, the less we can get done on other matters.
This is why we need filibuster reform.
