The President has been campaigning hard for a month to Pass This Bill! for his new jobs bill. But most Democrats don't like parts of it, not to mention many Republicans. So Harry Reid has refused to vote on it.
Harry Reid changed the Senate rules today so that Democrats don't have to vote on President Obama's jobs bill. Harry Reid blocked all amendments and then abolished the Minority right to suspend the rules and offer an amendment after debate is finished. Reid has basically blocked all Republican bills for the past four years by "filling the tree" with nonsense amendments to use up time. He is forcing the Republican Senators to filibuster everything, creating even more gridlock than we have now.
Not quite the nuclear option, but close. The nuclear option would mean Reid would try to get rid of the filibuster and the 60 votes needed to pass things.
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