what do you think of at least rand paul was an old-fashioned real fist filibuster, real talk on the senate floor. what did you think of the way they blocked by phil buster, in effect chuck hagel? those are the threats. you knew they weren t going to do it, and even john mccain voted to, you know, to in the final package voted yes, but voted to let it go to the floor, and knowing he needed the 60 votes to break the fill bester, so people don t know about filibuster. they think it s insane. ates fannie kicking machine. it will help your party one time. it won t change, and they did the right thing by stopping any reform of it, which would have destroyed it. the old guard is leaving.
fell in half the states last month. labor department says jobless numbers declined in 25 states. rose in 14. stayed the same in 11. majority leader eric cantor says the house will consider two jobs measures next week. this follows yesterday s senate rejection of one piece of the president s jobs bill. which is already been blocked as a full package. senate democrats could not get enough votes to break a g.o.p. phil buster of legislation, hiring of teachers and first responders. stocks finished the week on positive note. dow added 267. the s&p 500 gained 23. nasdaq closed 39 ahead. taking stock of what condoleezza rice calls an eerie fascination with her by muammar gaddafi. that s later on the grapevine. but first, is the home of jack daniels trying to bleed the whiskey maker dry?
fell in half the states last month. labor department says jobless numbers declined in 25 states. rose in 14. stayed the same in 11. majority leader eric cantor says the house will consider two jobs measures next week. this follows yesterday s senate rejection of one piece of the president s jobs bill. which is already been blocked as a full package. senate democrats could not get enough votes to break a g.o.p. phil buster of legislation, hiring of teachers and first responders. stocks finished the week on positive note. dow added 267. the s&p 500 gained 23. nasdaq closed 39 ahead. taking stock of what condoleezza rice calls an eerie fascination with her by muammar gaddafi. that s later on the grapevine. but first, is the home of jack daniels trying to bleed the whiskey maker dry? [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? yeah, maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables
obama asking to have his name withdrawn from the ninth circuit nomination because of the phil buster against him. now that that barrier s been broken. now that republicans have started using their minority power to block nominees that they some emily pledged they would never block, does anybody think it s going to improve anytime soon? anytime before the next election? senator reid sounds confident about it. we have had some real success this year as it relates to nominations. now that they have done this something they said they d never do, do we any that anymore president obama nominated judges are going to get through? any nominees at all? or elizabeth warnen?
republicans did phil buster his nomination to the bench last week. there was a qualitative change on nominations this year when republicans decided to phil buster the nomination of goodwin lui. a promising judicial candidate in part because he s thought of as being smart and quite long. he could have a long judicial career ahead of him. a lot of republican senators said that judicial nomination should never be filibustered. does that indicate a worsening. i quoted a number of them before professor lui s vote. we had some important votes this year. most significant vote was not lui. although that was important. the most significant vote was a man from rhode island by the name of mcconnell. an outstanding trial lawyer. he had in the mind of the