Cloture voting 1947-2008: The Chart-- The White House starts to fight back

By GottaLaff

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That noise you hear is the increasing rumblings of the White House and Congress members gearing up to fight back against the GOP's abuse of the filibuster.

About time. Louder please.

Here's a video of Rachel Maddow discussing the subject.

And David Axelrod threw in his two cents:

In an interview today with TV One’s Roland Martin, White House senior adviser David Axelrod waded into the controversy:

“The Republican strategy in the Senate is to turn 50 into 60, in other words no longer do you need a majority to carry the day in the Senate. You need 60 votes for everything because the Republicans are filibustering every single bill,” he said. “We need to call that out, and they need to explain to the American people whether throwing a wrench into everything at a time of national emergency is the appropriate policy. They want to win an election and take us back to the policies that got us into this mess in the first place.”

Here's a montage of Sunday rumbles and grumbles about the ongoing obstructionism: