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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 04, 2014, 02:35:00 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251383030
Oh my.
world wide wally (1,158 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2014, 11:00 AM
One other thing should be be pointed out about the nearly impossible row Obama has had to hoe.
Not only did he face an oppositional House of Reps, he also was cursed with the worst Senate majority leader in history.
Watch closely on Jan 20, Harry.
As big a jerk-off as he is, Mitch McConnell will show you that all you need to eliminate the filibuster is a litlle bitty teensy set of balls.
Then POOF .... It's gone
Thank all of you Dem candidates for running away from the Prez and the truth. Now WE get to pay for your amazing cowardice for the past 6 years.
The ONLY thing we have left to save us at this stage of the game is just what we started with.......HOPE
YarnAddict (1,333 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2014, 01:04 PM
1. Um . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress
In the November 4, 2008 elections, the Democratic Party increased its majorities in both chambers, giving President Obama a Democratic majority in the legislature for the first two years of his presidency. A new delegate seat was created for the Northern Mariana Islands. This Congress has been considered one of the most productive Congresses in history in terms of legislation passed since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the 89th Congress.
From the time Senator Franken won his recount in June 2009 until Scotty Brown was elected in December 2009, Obama had a filibuster-proof Senate.
And, in case you don't remember Majority Leader Reid DID eliminate the filibuster.
world wide wally (1,158 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2014, 03:37 PM
2. um
Reid only eliminated the filibuster regarding appointments. Just look at what happened to legislation like the jobs act, veteran''s benefits, and you know as well as I that the list goes on, and on, and one, and….
Filibuster Harry (636 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2014, 04:20 PM
3. A big lesson
Yeah, and the Dems should have passed more legislation in that little time period (super majority) to include taxes, unemployment benefits expiring, and infrastructure in addition to the AFA. They would never have gotten that without the super majority.
JoePhilly (21,171 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2014, 05:46 PM
5. How many actual days did the Dems have a filabuser proof majority?*
To understand why all the things you listed didn't happen, its important to know the answer to my question.
*too many.
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The libs have had no problem with the the removal of the filibuster they supported in the senate. This negated a tradition going back to our founding. If the GOP now uses the rule the deems passed for the benefit of conservatives, the same parliamentary trick they used and supported will then have them screaming bloody murder.
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Majority Leader Reid
Notice how respectful they are when the Congressional weasel is on their side of the aisle. It's laughable.
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The libs have had no problem with the the removal of the filibuster they supported in the senate. This negated a tradition going back to our founding. If the GOP now uses the rule the deems passed for the benefit of conservatives, the same parliamentary trick they used and supported will then have them screaming bloody murder.
The rule would not benefit them unless there was a GOP President, the Executive still chooses the nominees.
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heh "filabuser".
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The rule would not benefit them unless there was a GOP President, the Executive still chooses the nominees.
You are right, but I was looking at the voiding of the whole filibuster rules. The door was opened by Reid for the GOP to bypass the filibuster completely. Not just Reid bypassing that one aspect of it. I hope they do.
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You are right, but I was looking at the voiding of the whole filibuster rules. The door was opened by Reid for the GOP to bypass the filibuster completely. Not just Reid bypassing that one aspect of it. I hope they do.
I think that would be a big mistake. Eventually the ass-kicking boot will be on the other foot again even if the Dems do lose this time, and when it is the payback for taking it to that next level would be enormous.
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In the November 4, 2008 elections, the Democratic Party increased its majorities in both chambers, giving President Obama a Democratic majority in the legislature for the first two years of his presidency
And yet the democrats failed to pass any kind of "comprehensive" immigration reform when they owned the legislature and White House but will bitch and cry and whine about how it's the republican's fault that immigration reform has not been passed.
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And yet the democrats failed to pass any kind of "comprehensive" immigration reform when they owned the legislature and White House but will bitch and cry and whine about how it's the republican's fault that immigration reform has not been passed.
And it is also the republican's fault that ObamaCare didn't produce single payer health care. :hammer:
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IIRC, McConnell is going to bring back the filibuster for use by the Dems.
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IIRC, McConnell is going to bring back the filibuster for use by the Dems.
Sounds like the kind of strategery we've all come to expect from [ B]itch McConnell... :whatever: