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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Delmar on April 07, 2017, 06:07:08 PM
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Fri Apr 7, 2017, 05:59 PM
Miles Archer (5,676 posts)
61 Senators sign letter to preserve filibuster rules
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN) A bipartisan group of 61 senators sent a letter to Senate leaders Friday urging them to maintain the 60-vote threshold for filibusters involving legislation, which they said is needed to ensure bipartisanship remains a component of passing bills through the chamber.
The move comes in the wake of a contentious battle this week in the Senate over the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch when the Republicans who control the chamber used the "nuclear option" to neutralize the filibuster for nominees to the Supreme Court.
"We are writing to urge you to support our efforts to preserve existing rules, practices, and traditions as they pertain to the right of Members to engage in extended debate on legislation before the United States Senate," said the letter that was spearheaded by GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware. "Senators have expressed a variety of opinions about the appropriateness of limiting debate when we are considering judicial and executive branch nominations. Regardless of our past disagreements on that issue, we are united in our determination to preserve the ability of Members to engage in extended debate when bills are on the Senate floor."
In the days leading up to Gorsuch's confirmation, Collins and Coons led bipartisan negotiations to try to head off the nuclear option, which changed the Senate rules over the objection of Democrats in the same way that in 2013 Democrats used the nuclear option to make it easier to confirm President Barack Obama's executive branch and lower-court nominees.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/politics/senate-filibuster-rules-letter/index.html
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141748526
Schmuckie Schumer and Stretch Pelosi have no say in the matter. The primitives at democrat underground sure as hell haven't got any say in the matter. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Response to Miles Archer (Original post)Fri Apr 7, 2017, 06:01 PM
ck4829 (17,968 posts)
1. Illegetimate Senate says what?
Legitimate Senate says this, shitgibbon:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsW9MlYu31g[/youtube]
Response to Miles Archer (Original post)Fri Apr 7, 2017, 06:03 PM
DrToast (4,067 posts)
2. Get rid of it
Let the chips fall where they may. I'm for more democracy.
Well played sir.
Response to Miles Archer (Original post)Fri Apr 7, 2017, 06:10 PM
Star Member rurallib (43,759 posts)
5. were this to happen, would Gorsuch be unconfirmed and start all over?
If not, **** 'em.
Repubs want to make rules as they go.
Another shit for brains primitive looking for a do-over.
Response to Miles Archer (Original post)Fri Apr 7, 2017, 06:20 PM
Star Member Augiedog (1,024 posts)
12. Trying to put the genie back in the bottle always works out well. Genie don't like it in there.
Why don't you try putting the gerbil back up in your keister, shitgibbon.
Response to Miles Archer (Original post)Fri Apr 7, 2017, 06:31 PM
Star Member tomp (9,011 posts)
17. if they want to preserve the 60 vote rule....
...all the have to do is VOTE AGAINST THE ****ING NOMINEE! what sort of disingenuous theater is this? how many republicans signed the letter and then vote for the illegal nominee anyway?
Illegal nominee?
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Remind me what the dems did when they did not have 60 votes for cloture on Ocare.
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I will go with a 60 vote fillibuster if we get rid of what the **** ever amendment that took states legislatures voting for senators and rip away the popular vote. To happy on rum to google but you all know what I'm talking about.
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Remind me what the dems did when they did not have 60 votes for cloture on Ocare.
:hi5:
Exactly. Blow me, you retards. You were so sure that the rEtHUGliKKKanS!!!! were going to be out of power forever.
Guess what?
Didn't happen, you little useless, parasitic f*cktards.
:bird: :bird: :bird: :bird: :bird: :bird: :bird: :bird: :bird: :bird:
I hate you more than anything I have ever run across.
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Those idiots are so blind with rage, or so stupid, or both, that they are blowing right past the 'For legislation' qualifier in there.
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Those idiots are so blind with rage, or so stupid, or both, that they are blowing right past the 'For legislation' qualifier in there.
They're both, at the very least.
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Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on April 07, 2017, 09:12:30 PM
Those idiots are so blind with rage, or so stupid, or both, that they are blowing right past the 'For legislation' qualifier in there.
They're both, at the very least.
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view3/4884131/2001-monkey-big-o.gif)
No question.
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... You were so sure that the rEtHUGliKKKanS!!!! were going to be out of power forever.
That's what Biden thought in 1992 when he refused for nearly a year to hold hearings on G. H. W. Bush's 10 judge nominees. That's what Harry Reid thought in 2005 when the Rs were too gutless to "go nuclear". That's what Harry Reid thought in 2013 when he "went nuclear" in 2013.
If McConnell allows filibusters of legislation, I hope he severely warns that he will euthanize the rule if the Ds petulantly try to obstruct every Trump appointment and all significant legislation.
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I wonder if the DUmmies can point to ONE SCOTUS justice that had to have more than a simple majority to be confirmed...
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141748526
Schmuckie Schumer and Stretch Pelosi have no say in the matter. The primitives at democrat underground sure as hell haven't got any say in the matter. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Legitimate Senate says this, shitgibbon:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsW9MlYu31g[/youtube]
Well played sir.
Another shit for brains primitive looking for a do-over.
Why don't you try putting the gerbil back up in your keister, shitgibbon.
Illegal nominee?
Of course he's an illegal nominee. Everyone knows that a legal nominee would have showed up wearing a LBGTAEIOU (and sometimes Y) rainbow t-shirt while carrying a "Black Lives Matter" sign in one hand and an unborn baby's head on a pike in the other hand.
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A bipartisan group of 61 senators .....
Whenever I hear "bipartisan" I know there is a major snow job coming. :whatever:
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Of course he's an illegal nominee. Everyone knows that a legal nominee would have showed up wearing a LBGTAEIOU (and sometimes Y) rainbow t-shirt while carrying a "Black Lives Matter" sign in one hand and an unborn baby's head on a pike in the other hand.
Nice to see you again, Flippy! Were you at a fictional spirit-guides' convention or something?