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Sorts of nominations. 60 votes, 60 votes out of 100, super majority, is what democrats needed to get almost anything out of the senate in the obama era. that's what happens when all of the senators from one party, from the opposition party, decide that they're all going to band together, week after week, month after month, year after year, to stall to an instruct and it derail the white house's agenda. not what the filibuster was designed to be, and it had huge implications for the kind of footprint barack obama has been able to establish as president. and it is why the biggest story of the ye...

This was nothing more than a power grab. in order to advance the obama administration's agenda, they just broke the senate rules. >> there you go. a lot of hypocrisy. republicans are doing their best to make the rules change, part of a larger narrative. it was like a memo went out to tie the rules change to the health care fight. >> sounds to me like harry reid is trying to change the subject. if i were taking all the incoming fire that he is taking over obama care, i would try to change the subject too. >> i would support this law. i would be looking to change the subject. >> another raw exer...

The activist base, not in a good place. not feeling good about health care. this has been something that something on the activist base have been wanting harry reid to do for a while. so i think this is also about a moment of reassurance to the democratic base who is feeling a little bit, you know, under attack and under siege a little bit because of how poorly the health care rollout is going. >> let's talk about the likely next steps as far as the senate is concerned? just normal business? >> well, you saw harry reid quickly turn to the defense authorization bill. i think they do not want to...

He believes this is a fake fight and that this is not fair, it's a double standard and so on and so on. of course, before he spoke, harry reid made the point, going through some of the statistics, some of the numbers of nominees that are held up currently as we speak from the administration -- i believe 75 are sitting on the calendar right now -- saying that that is unfair and people in the administration need to have the personnel in order to have the government to function. it is a basic question of whether or not the government can function for the people. and they can't if they don't have ...

To the floor to prepare for this vote, which could be an historic vote. and why this matters, it certainly sounds like maybe a process that people might not care about. but they should care. as you said, this is about a very partisan place that could get even more divided and divisive, if you can even imagine that. the reason why, harry reid, the democratic leader is making moves to make a change in the rules is because of frustration that, republicans have been holding up the president's nominees. the straw that broke the camel's back is the fact that republicans have been blocking three nomi...