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"The administration needs to be able to have the team that he wants in place"...Harry Reid (D). I think you could find similar quotes from the Nazi party in the 30's.
Why are rw'ers always the first ones to break Godwin's Law
On May 7, 1933, just two months after the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the New York Times reporter Anne OHare McCormick wrote that the atmosphere in Washington was strangely reminiscent of Rome in the first weeks after the march of the Blackshirts, of Moscow at the beginning of the Five-Year Plan. America today literally asks for orders. The Roosevelt administration, she added, envisages a federation of industry, labor and government after the fashion of the corporative State as it exists in Italy.
To compare, Schivelbusch stresses, is not the same as to equate. America during Roosevelts New Deal did not become a one-party state; it had no secret police; the Constitution remained in force, and there were no concentration camps; the New Deal preserved the institutions of the liberal-democratic system that National Socialism abolished. But throughout the 30s, intellectuals and journalists noted areas of convergence among the New Deal, Fascism, and National Socialism. All three were seen as transcending classic Anglo-French liberalismindividualism, free markets, decentralized power.
Republicans gridlocking the Senate with 45 votes is a travesty
Filibuster is an archaic tradition meant for exceptional circumstances. Requiring 60 votes for Congress to do its job does not work. Republicans have abused their filibuster privledges....time to take them away
It's a slippery slope we trod when we decide to give majority rule on anything. If this power is removed from the minority party, who knows what similar circumstances will occur resulting in variable happenstance. Filibusters are the best tool for the party that didn't win the elections, and should remain in place.
It was a cute little custom that was rarely invoked. Now, when it is envoked on every law that does not involve renaming a Post Office it is time to abandon it.
If a party can win the Senate, House and Presidency....I have no problem with majority rule
I prefer majority rule to minority rule any day
How can it backfire? Democrats don't misuse and abuse the filibuster when in the minority. They have nothing to lose if the GOP ever gains the majority again. They will provide LOYAL OPPOSITION AND DISSENT as they are supposed to do.
You assholes are applauding the misuse of the rules now......and you pretend as though you'd be against this rule change if the GOP was having to deal with this kind of bullshit.
Reid should have done this years ago.
The majority should rule in a democracy.
Get rid of the filibuster forever.
The majority should rule in a democracy.
Get rid of the filibuster forever.
You live in a Republic
How can it backfire? Democrats don't misuse and abuse the filibuster when in the minority. They have nothing to lose if the GOP ever gains the majority again. They will provide LOYAL OPPOSITION AND DISSENT as they are supposed to do.
You assholes are applauding the misuse of the rules now......and you pretend as though you'd be against this rule change if the GOP was having to deal with this kind of bullshit.
Reid should have done this years ago.
LOLOLOLOLOL.
its the tired old "its loyal dissent when we do it, and obstruction when you do it" bullshit.
How can it backfire? Democrats don't misuse and abuse the filibuster when in the minority. They have nothing to lose if the GOP ever gains the majority again. They will provide LOYAL OPPOSITION AND DISSENT as they are supposed to do.
You assholes are applauding the misuse of the rules now......and you pretend as though you'd be against this rule change if the GOP was having to deal with this kind of bullshit.
Reid should have done this years ago.
LOLOLOLOLOL.
its the tired old "its loyal dissent when we do it, and obstruction when you do it" bullshit.
No.
It's a fucking lie.
At least 23 nominations were held up by dimocraps. It got so bad that Bush just stopped nominating people for the Bench.
dimocraps lie, it's what they do.
And they're stupid too.
If they want to present a reasoned argument for why this should be done, I'll be happy to debate it with them.
But they don't. They just simply fucking LIE.
If Reid does get this through, I don't want to hear any bitching from them when we take back the Senate and the White House and put three TOTALLY Anti-Roe Supremes on the Bench.
Watch them cry and belly-ache then.
Think they can get a Constitutional Amendment through to stop it? Me neither. I'd say the odds of that happening are about 1,000 to 1.
Maybe more.
Voting on changing filibuster rules for certain nominees.
Hmmm, then I guess you support a majority vote in the states on things like gay marriage and gun control?
They have it right now.......I do not support anyones right to vote on what rights others are allowed to have
Really? Did the founders vote on the constitution?
Reid’s threat comes as Senate Republicans blocked – for the third time in three weeks—Obama’s pick, Robert Wilkins, to be a judge on the powerful D.C. Court of Appeals. Reid had a solid majority, but due to GOP’s exploitation of the Senate’s arcane rules, Democrats still fell six votes short of ending debate on Wilkins’ nomination.
Republicans gridlocking the Senate with 45 votes is a travesty
Filibuster is an archaic tradition meant for exceptional circumstances. Requiring 60 votes for Congress to do its job does not work. Republicans have abused their filibuster privledges....time to take them away
Voting on changing filibuster rules for certain nominees.
Nope, went down along party lines.
Republicans gridlocking the Senate with 45 votes is a travesty
Filibuster is an archaic tradition meant for exceptional circumstances. Requiring 60 votes for Congress to do its job does not work. Republicans have abused their filibuster privledges....time to take them away
Republicans gridlocking the Senate is a God send
Hmmm, then I guess you support a majority vote in the states on things like gay marriage and gun control?
They have it right now.......I do not support anyones right to vote on what rights others are allowed to have
Really? Did the founders vote on the constitution?
