Reid Changing Filibuster Rules

[The Rabbi]

Any idea that they have a shred of integrity should be dispelled by now. The GOP should recognize the Democratic Party is about on a par with Hezbollah in working for the destruction of America, using about the same means,and act accordingly.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

The majority should rule in a democracy.

Get rid of the filibuster forever.

Chrissy, we do not live in a "democracy."

We live in a Constitutional Republic.

 

[Lovebears65]

When they voted for Nuclear option that is pretty much that who ever is in charge in the senate has all say. I cant wait until the REP take over and they are shitting their pants in 2014..

 

[HenryBHough]

What goes around comes around.

Gonna be fun to watch but for now it's sole purpose is to detract from the Great Obamacare disaster. Republicans would be well advised to not take the bait - just suck it up and take their revenge after 2014.

 

[Edgetho]

When they voted for Nuclear option that is pretty much that who ever is in charge in the senate has all say. I cant wait until the REP take over and they are shitting their pants in 2014..

Republicans need to play the same game dimocrap scum play.

Only harder and meaner. It's way overdue.

 

[kiwiman127]

Shutdown versus Obamacare. I'd call that a toss up!

 

[Luddly Neddite]

No excuse for HALF of Obama's executive appointments to have been stopped.

The Rs said they would stop this president, that they would stop our government and that's what they have gotten away with. They've used the filibuster, the sequester and government shut down - all to harm the US and its got to be stopped.

Stop appointing Marxists, anarchists and total incomptenets

This is just as stupid as the idiot R who lied when he said there were communists in the Dem congress.

Frank, most of your posts are just stupid lies. Stop lying and use your head. Your lies don't help your (screwed up ultra-partisan and utterly racist) agenda.

Or keep lying.

Your choice.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

So they changed something they've used in the same manner in the past that was used recently and they were against the change before they were for the change.

Good to know. Not that integrity or principle would ever come into the equation of LOLberalism.

Republicans were abusing the filibuster so they had their toy taken away from them

You mean they were abusing it the same exact way the democrats "abused" it in the 108th congress? Yeah, just like that.

The difference? LOLberals are like little children. They want what they want adn they want it right now. They will lie, cheat, steal and even murer to obtain it.

Congrats on your special "evolution", LOLberals. You have "evolved" on yet another issue.
You didn't want the rules change when Bush was president, but now you do so Obama can appoint his people without the fillibusters democrats used previously.

Integrity; LOLberals have none. Zip. Zilch. Zero.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

No excuse for HALF of Obama's executive appointments to have been stopped.

The Rs said they would stop this president, that they would stop our government and that's what they have gotten away with. They've used the filibuster, the sequester and government shut down - all to harm the US and its got to be stopped.

Stop appointing Marxists, anarchists and total incomptenets

This is just as stupid as the idiot R who lied when he said there were communists in the Dem congress.

Frank, most of your posts are just stupid lies. Stop lying and use your head. Your lies don't help your (screwed up ultra-partisan and utterly racist) agenda.

Or keep lying.

Your choice.

^ With Muddly, the irony NEVER rests.

 

[rightwinger]

Any idea that they have a shred of integrity should be dispelled by now. The GOP should recognize the Democratic Party is about on a par with Hezbollah in working for the destruction of America, using about the same means,and act accordingly.

2 Point Hyperbole violation: Failure to call Dems Nazis

 

[TRFjr]

can anyone really blame him for the "party of no" (hint- the party that couldn't win the Presidency or the senate ) simply blocking anything that moves for the past 4+ yrs? Sen. Reid is a statesman & a scholar

Reid threatens to go nuclear on filibuster reform | MSNBC

“I’m considering looking at the rules,” the Nevada Democrat told reporters on Tuesday. “The American people are sick of this. In the name of simple fairness, any president, not just President Obama, Democrat or Republican, needs to be able to have the team that he wants in place,” Reid added.

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.

"I am also aware that the Founding Fathers established the filibuster as a means of protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority -- and that protection, with some changes, has been in place for over 200 years."

who said that in 2005?

 

[TRFjr]

"I am also aware that the Founding Fathers established the filibuster as a means of protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority -- and that protection, with some changes, has been in place for over 200 years."

who said that in 2005? anyone know? I know do you?

 

[peach174]

can anyone really blame him for the "party of no" (hint- the party that couldn't win the Presidency or the senate ) simply blocking anything that moves for the past 4+ yrs? Sen. Reid is a statesman & a scholar

Reid threatens to go nuclear on filibuster reform | MSNBC

“I’m considering looking at the rules,” the Nevada Democrat told reporters on Tuesday. “The American people are sick of this. In the name of simple fairness, any president, not just President Obama, Democrat or Republican, needs to be able to have the team that he wants in place,” Reid added.

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.

"I am also aware that the Founding Fathers established the filibuster as a means of protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority -- and that protection, with some changes, has been in place for over 200 years."

who said that in 2005?

Senator Ted Kennedy

 

[Avorysuds]

Great, now Democrats are holding a gun the the American people's heads. Fucking terrorists!

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Republicans were abusing the filibuster so they had their toy taken away from them

Yeah Obama should get his picks. Period.

Yup

If you like your judicial appointment you can keep it. Period.



LOLberals are such children.

 

[Black_Label]

There never should have to be a super majority in the first place. The democrats are just following the constitution, something the GOP hates with a passion.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

The deems will be morning this in two years time.


Short term gain leads to long term pain on this one

 

[rightwinger]

So they changed something they've used in the same manner in the past that was used recently and they were against the change before they were for the change.

Good to know. Not that integrity or principle would ever come into the equation of LOLberalism.

Republicans were abusing the filibuster so they had their toy taken away from them

You mean they were abusing it the same exact way the democrats "abused" it in the 108th congress? Yeah, just like that.

The difference? LOLberals are like little children. They want what they want adn they want it right now. They will lie, cheat, steal and even murer to obtain it.

Congrats on your special "evolution", LOLberals. You have "evolved" on yet another issue.
You didn't want the rules change when Bush was president, but now you do so Obama can appoint his people without the fillibusters democrats used previously.

Integrity; LOLberals have none. Zip. Zilch. Zero.

You have still failed to produce any evidence that the Democrats in the 108th used Filibuster more than Republicans in the 110th and 112th

I will wait

 

[The Rabbi]

Any idea that they have a shred of integrity should be dispelled by now. The GOP should recognize the Democratic Party is about on a par with Hezbollah in working for the destruction of America, using about the same means,and act accordingly.

2 Point Hyperbole violation: Failure to call Dems Nazis

Your opinion is noted. And dismissed.

 

[HenryBHough]

Time for Republican senators to start abstaining from voting - or just symbolically say they are voting "present" on EVERYTHING so that all the shit that rains down is exclusively owned by Democraps. Yes, in The HOUSE especially where Republicans are in majority.