Time to kill the filibuster

[meaner gene]

It keeps it normal, checks and balances

We are not in a normal era. Mitch McConnell has said that republicans would automatically vote NO on everything that Biden sends to congress, without even seeing it.

 

[meaner gene]

Courts can't investigate. They can not legally take an advisory case.

If it's not a legitimate matter before a court of law, then it should not be investigated on the watch of a law enforcement agency or law-making body.

Exactly, we need an independent non-partisan commission, or an independent bi-partisan commission.

 

[kyzr]

Trump had the filibuster to deal with. That's just how DC works.
Neither side is a dictatorship. If a policy can't get 60 votes, its a bad policy.

Really, what about the filibuster for supreme court justices.

GONE.......

Harry Reid voted via the "nuclear option" to end the filibuster only for judicial appointments and cabinet confirmations.
The filibuster still exists for approval of new laws.
Whichever side ends the filibuster will soon regret it, because its the only check on one party rule.

 

[Richard-H]

The filibuster guarantees that almost nothing gets done in Washington. Then the politicians can whine to their constituents about the 'Do Nothing' congress..but they'll keep 'fighting the good fight'.

It's a SCAM!!!

Republicans run on the principle that government doesn't work, and they demonstrate it by blocking the work of government. IRonald Reagan famously said the last thing you want to hear from someone knocking on your door is "I'm from the government and i'm here to help."

Reagan was an idiot. There are millions of Americans that are more than happy when FEMA shows up to help.

He saved America

He only saved the egos of a lot of idiots like himself.

If he had never been elected, America would have been better off.

 

[Wyatt earp]

It keeps it normal, checks and balances

We are not in a normal era. Mitch McConnell has said that republicans would automatically vote NO on everything that Biden sends to congress, without even seeing it.

Probably because he wants 80 trillion dollars and dudes in dresses playing woman sports

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Nobody wanted to kill the filibuster. I didn't want to kill the filibuster. All that was true before the republicans refused to agree to a bipartisan 1/6 commission to investigate the attack on the capitol. Before the vote, repubs made demands for their cooperation, and democrats agreed to every one of them. Repubs still refused to cooperate. If they refuse to cooperate on something so momentous as that, it's obvious they won't cooperate on anything else. The country can't afford to capitulate to the party of NO for a full four years. The insurrectionists built a gallows on the lawn and were chanting “KILL MIKE PENCE!!” There are pictures of republicans stacking furniture to block the door in an effort to keep the insurrectionists out. Those were the same republicans who voted against the bipartisan investigation. Only an idiot wouldn't see that we need to drop the politics and discover what really happened, and who was instrumental in planning it. They obviously care more about protecting trump, and their members who were instrumental in planning the attempted coup than they care about taking care of the country's business. I would prefer to keep the filibuster, but the repubs are forcing the issue so that our only choice is to end it. Once that is done, it won't seem like such a big deal to reconsider statehood for DC and Puerto Rico or a few more seats on the Supreme court. If the republicans keep insisting on being obstinate, there is not much else we can do but to play hardball just like they are doing.

'Five-alarm fire': Liberals use Jan. 6 panel blockade as rallying cry to abolish filibuster

More than 100 advocacy groups sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for elimination of the 60-vote threshold.

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You Progressive fascists are so predictable!

Gerrymandering and the filibuster are only cool when they benefit Progressives Fascists!

Goose Stepping practice at 2PM today!

 

[Richard-H]

Trump had the filibuster to deal with. That's just how DC works.
Neither side is a dictatorship. If a policy can't get 60 votes, its a bad policy.

Really, what about the filibuster for supreme court justices.

GONE.......

Harry Reid voted via the "nuclear option" to end the filibuster only for judicial appointments and cabinet confirmations.
The filibuster still exists for approval of new laws.
Whichever side ends the filibuster will soon regret it, because its the only check on one party rule.

It only one party rule if the majority party allows no individualism.

But either way, if the filibuster were eliminated, the majority party will have no excuses...and they'd reap what they sowed.

 

[justinacolmena]

has said that republicans would automatically vote NO on everything that Biden sends to congress, without even seeing it.

The Democrats' railing and false impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump while he was in office PROVE that Democrats in Congress have nothing worthy of discussion or consideration to bring to the table.

 

[Wyatt earp]

The filibuster guarantees that almost nothing gets done in Washington. Then the politicians can whine to their constituents about the 'Do Nothing' congress..but they'll keep 'fighting the good fight'.

It's a SCAM!!!

Republicans run on the principle that government doesn't work, and they demonstrate it by blocking the work of government. IRonald Reagan famously said the last thing you want to hear from someone knocking on your door is "I'm from the government and i'm here to help."

Reagan was an idiot. There are millions of Americans that are more than happy when FEMA shows up to help.

He saved America

He only saved the egos of a lot of idiots like himself.

If he had never been elected, America would have been better off.

He destroyed the USSR

You triggered bro?

 

[meaner gene]

Harry Reid voted via the "nuclear option" to end the filibuster only for judicial appointments and cabinet confirmations.
The filibuster still exists for approval of new laws.
Whichever side ends the filibuster will soon regret it, because its the only check on one party rule.

Todays republicans don't even pretend to legislate. They vote NO on anything from the Biden white house, without even reading it.

Mitch McConnell says it's his strategy of blocking anything Biden wants to get done to help the country.

 

[kyzr]

Harry Reid voted via the "nuclear option" to end the filibuster only for judicial appointments and cabinet confirmations.
The filibuster still exists for approval of new laws.
Whichever side ends the filibuster will soon regret it, because its the only check on one party rule.

Todays republicans don't even pretend to legislate. They vote NO on anything from the Biden white house, without even reading it.

Mitch McConnell says it's his strategy of blocking anything Biden wants to get done to help the country.

The democrats have no bi-partisan Bills to consider.
The democrat's and GOP policies are on different planets.
Here is a list of democrat policies that are DOA in the senate.
Open Borders and lax immigration policies
Defund the police
"Green" Energy policies
Military posture
The Green New Deal
"Wokeness"
Anarchy instead of Law and Order
Reprogram the US education system: Critical Race Theory vs Traditional/Family Values
China and Russia trade policies
Outsourcing jobs by taxing corporations so much they relocate
HR-1 grab for one-party rule
Make DC & PR new states taking over the US senate forever
Replacing the Electoral College with the popular vote
Totally turning the US into a socialist/failed state.
Packing the US Supreme Court with Leftists

 

[meaner gene]

has said that republicans would automatically vote NO on everything that Biden sends to congress, without even seeing it.

The Democrats' railing and false impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump while he was in office PROVE that Democrats in Congress have nothing worthy of discussion or consideration to bring to the table.

Yet republicans take the position that it's their job to sabotage the government, by preventing anything new from being passed.

If the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and Biden wanted to declare war, the republicans would vote against it.

 

[kyzr]

has said that republicans would automatically vote NO on everything that Biden sends to congress, without even seeing it.

The Democrats' railing and false impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump while he was in office PROVE that Democrats in Congress have nothing worthy of discussion or consideration to bring to the table.

Yet republicans take the position that it's their job to sabotage the government, by preventing anything new from being passed.

If the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and Biden wanted to declare war, the republicans would vote against it.

The Republicans are protecting us from the socialists trying to ruin the country.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Harry Reid voted via the "nuclear option" to end the filibuster only for judicial appointments and cabinet confirmations.
The filibuster still exists for approval of new laws.
Whichever side ends the filibuster will soon regret it, because its the only check on one party rule.

Todays republicans don't even pretend to legislate. They vote NO on anything from the Biden white house, without even reading it.

Mitch McConnell says it's his strategy of blocking anything Biden wants to get done to help the country.

Where did we see this before you fuck face?

 

[meaner gene]

The democrats have no bi-partisan Bills to consider.
The democrat's and GOP policies are on different planets.

The Coronavirus bill didn't get a single republican vote. Yet republicans went home and bragged about bringing funding to their community.

 

[Richard-H]

The filibuster guarantees that almost nothing gets done in Washington. Then the politicians can whine to their constituents about the 'Do Nothing' congress..but they'll keep 'fighting the good fight'.

It's a SCAM!!!

Republicans run on the principle that government doesn't work, and they demonstrate it by blocking the work of government. IRonald Reagan famously said the last thing you want to hear from someone knocking on your door is "I'm from the government and i'm here to help."

Reagan was an idiot. There are millions of Americans that are more than happy when FEMA shows up to help.

He saved America

He only saved the egos of a lot of idiots like himself.

If he had never been elected, America would have been better off.

He destroyed the USSR

You triggered bro?

He had noting to do with the dissolution of the USSR.

You apparently know no one who lived in the USSR at that time. You know nothing about what caused the USSR to dissolve.

No matter who the President of the U.S. was, the USSR still would have dissolved.

 

[citygator]

The crooked republicans will weasel their way around anything. If the Dems don’t end the filibuster the pubs will next time they are in charge. It’s gone. It’s just a matter of whether you get a year or two without it.

 

[blackhawk]

I wonder how much the left would have supported ending the filibuster if Mitch McConnell and the Republicans had considered doing it during the Trump administration. Actually I don’t we all know the answer not at all. The left should be grateful they have Joe Manchin and Krysten Sienema saving them from there short sighted partisan idiocy.

 

[Wyatt earp]

The filibuster guarantees that almost nothing gets done in Washington. Then the politicians can whine to their constituents about the 'Do Nothing' congress..but they'll keep 'fighting the good fight'.

It's a SCAM!!!

Republicans run on the principle that government doesn't work, and they demonstrate it by blocking the work of government. IRonald Reagan famously said the last thing you want to hear from someone knocking on your door is "I'm from the government and i'm here to help."

Reagan was an idiot. There are millions of Americans that are more than happy when FEMA shows up to help.

He saved America

He only saved the egos of a lot of idiots like himself.

If he had never been elected, America would have been better off.

He destroyed the USSR

You triggered bro?

He had noting to do with the dissolution of the USSR.

You apparently know no one who lived in the USSR at that time. You know nothing about what caused the USSR to dissolve.

No matter who the President of the U.S. was, the USSR still would have dissolved.

My brother married a Russian girl from Moscow you fuck

 

[meaner gene]

The Republicans are protecting us from the socialists trying to ruin the country.

They have no ideas, they forgot how to run government. So the only thing they can do is prevent somebody else from running government.

It's like a cripple running in a race, with the strategy to win being to Tonya Harding the other runners.