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He looks like he just saw a woman naked for the first time…
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“Is McConnell About To Make Democrats Pay For Nuking The Filibuster”?
He will accept all matter of vegetation. Please slip it under the turtle shell front.
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According the Hill, a rift has formed between freshman senators who wish
to do away with the filibuster on motions to proceed and veteran
Republicans concerned about what happens if Democrats retake the Senate.
Now watch as the veteran lawmakers flex their muscle in the face of the Idocracy Caucus. Can the turtle see past his nose? The magic eight ball says…
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All this is a result of Mitch abusing the filibuster when dems controlled the Senate.
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The committee will be made up of Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (R-MO), Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) Sens. Cory Gardner (R-CO), and Thom Tillis (R-NC), according to The Hill.
Now, let’s say this group of fellas is in a room together doing their senate thing and a chandelier fell from the ceiling and killed each and every one of them instantly. Bad thing?
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Democrats didn’t nuke the fillibuster.
Damn, I like Sneed but this looks like a Kapur plop.
Special guest writer under the wrong byline, maybe?
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Of course it is. Don’t you know what the taxpayers would have to pay to replace decent Senatorial chandelier these days???
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Democrats didn’t “NUKE” the Filibuster.
If they did how the hell have they been blocking things so successfully?
What crappy writing. This reads like something printed over at POLITICO.
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Just say no to McTurtle. … Unless it happened in the spring, there’s never been a better time to shut down the government again.
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Excellent point. How about mid-century spy genre green smoky poisonous gas leaked through the air vents?
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At this point in time, the Dems have NO incentive to give in to this madness. None. In a strange bit of karma, the Dems are perfectly positioned to let the Rethugs take this country right off the cliff, down into the shadows of Hell itself and very few Americans wouldn’t know that it was the Rethugs at the helm. During the first term, I could see why the Dems did what they did in terms of trying to negotiate with madmen. I didn’t agree with it but I saw the strategy.
Now, considering the unbridled chaos in the House, there’s no reason for Dems not to capitalize on it. There’s no price for the Dems to pay on not enacting a budget deal.
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Senate systems that should serve the nation are currently blocking debate…
Oh for fucks sake. The filibuster, or more precisely lowering the threshold to invoke cloture, is the process used to not end debate. The exact opposite of what this meatball is vomiting up.
More deep ignorance about basic shit from the GOP.
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Mitch loves the cover the f’buster provides.
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Agree…with all the chaos in the House now, anything bad that Congress does (or more likely, doesn’t do) will fall squarely on the shoulders of the GOP, whether or not it is actually their doing (that said, it probably WILL be their fault, but the chaos and the attention that it has generated may make more people pay attention to the GOP dysfunction)
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Please get rid of it. We’ll be happy not to have it as an impediment when the democrats take the Senate back and HRC is President in 2017.
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I agree; Ms. Sneed really should have clarified that in 2013, Reid and the Dems took away the option to filibuster the President appointments in response to the severe backlog of POTUS’s appointment picks in her headline.
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TPM:
According the Hill, a rift has formed between freshman senators who wish to do away with the filibuster on motions to proceed and veteran Republicans concerned about what happens if Democrats retake the Senate.
Which is why I hope that McConnell gets rid of the the filibuster.
Sure, Republicans hold the majority in the Senate now, but it’s not going to last long. I’m not going to say Demographics Are Destiny because, theoretically, the GOP could evolve to respond to the ongoing demographic changes in the country.
But they won’t.
Which means Democrats will be in charge of the Senate again soon, probably January 2017, and Republicans will find it increasingly harder to win a majority there as long as they continue the Southern Strategy of appealing to racists, homophobes, Islamophobes, misogynists, religious fundamentalists, and sundry other xenophobes, bigots, and extremists. When Dems are in charge again, the less they have to worry about filibusters from the GOP, the better.
In the meantime, the GOP doesn’t have a large enough majority to overcome a presidential veto in either house of Congress, even if they somehow managed to unite together despite the purity spiral currently fracturing the party.
In short, here’s the Too Long; Didn’t Read summary:
Go for it, Mitch!!!
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Agreed. Except I would simply say, let’s try democracy for a change. Winners of elections deserve to wield the power the electorate gave them, Republicans or Democrats.
The Senate is already a god awful, undemocratic institution to begin with.
9 States have over 50% of the population, but make up 18% of the votes.
It’s not in the constitution, get rid of it.
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