[Newsbot]

Title: Senate approves change to filibuster rule after repeated Republican blocks
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: martin14
Date: 2013-11-21 10:31:10

[martin14]

Well, Democrats better hope they don't get completely ass raped next year, because this change will definitely come back to bite them in the ass.

[DanSC]

martin14 martin14:

Well, Democrats better hope they don't get completely ass raped next year, because this change will definitely come back to bite them in the ass.

Then they will demand a filibuster, saying it is critical to protecting the rights of the minority from the tyranny of the majority; a key check and balance that preserves the Republic.

Yes, I'd expect the same from the Republicans.

[Prof_Chomsky]

martin14 martin14:

Well, Democrats better hope they don't get completely ass raped next year, because this change will definitely come back to bite them in the ass.

Check your filibuster history... Dems don't do this to the Republicans...

[DanSC]

The Senate Democrats filibusters many Bush nominees.

[martin14]

Prof_Chomsky Prof_Chomsky:

martin14 martin14:

Well, Democrats better hope they don't get completely ass raped next year, because this change will definitely come back to bite them in the ass.

Check your filibuster history... Dems don't do this to the Republicans...

Would you like to retract that statement before being called a big fat liar ?

[BartSimpson]

Prof_Chomsky Prof_Chomsky:

martin14 martin14:

Well, Democrats better hope they don't get completely ass raped next year, because this change will definitely come back to bite them in the ass.

Check your filibuster history... Dems don't do this to the Republicans...

THEY JUST DID, SHITHEAD!!!!

[xerxes]

Good for them. The filibuster is used far far too much.

[Thanos]

The whole concept is ridiculous and should be banned. Committee, a week worth of floor debate, maximum, and then vote. Nothing could be simpler and more efficient and can't be so easily sabotaged by radicals, or cause the entire institution to become an object of ridicule.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

The whole concept is ridiculous and should be banned. Committee, a week worth of floor debate, maximum, and then vote. Nothing could be simpler and more efficient and can't be so easily sabotaged by radicals, or cause the entire institution to become an object of ridicule.

Remember this when the Tea Party takes control of the Senate and the Democrats can't do sh*t while Sheriff Joe Arpaio gets nominated and appointed as the Chief Justice of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

[commanderkai]

I'm going to enjoy the immense whining the moment Republican appointees can't be blocked through filibuster.

[BartSimpson]

Democrats are lying, c*cks*cking hypocrites.

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/1 ... hip-worse/

$1:

Obama in 2005: Nuclear Option will Make Partisanship Worse

In April 2005, when Democrats were blocking a list of Bush nominees and Republicans were threatening to invoke the “nuclear option,” the newly elected junior senator from Illinois, Sen. Barack Obama, took to the floor and sanctimoniously proclaimed that the nuclear option would not only be a violation of democratic principles, but that it would worsen partisanship.

Purple lipped, lying bastard Purple lipped, lying bastard:

Everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster – if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse.

I urge my Republican colleagues not to go through with changing these rules . . . I sense that talk of the nuclear option is more about power than about fairness. I believe some of my colleagues propose this rules change because they believe they can get away with it rather than because they know it’s good for our democracy.

What (Americans) don’t expect is for one Party, be it Republican or Democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game, so that they can make all the decision while the other Party is told to sit down and keep quiet.

[Public_Domain]

[commanderkai]

A lot of hypocrites are being exposed today. Here's another:

Current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, 8 years ago Current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, 8 years ago:

The American people have rejected the nuclear option because they see it for what it is — an unconstitutional abuse of power.

Regardless of political affiliation, Americans understand that this is a partisan power grab.

http://democrats.senate.gov/2005/04/26/ ... ar-option/

I honestly love that I pulled that from the Democrats' own website. We'll see how long it takes until they pull it down.

[BartSimpson]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

Can't decent anti-Obama standpoints be made without racist remarks like "purple-lipped" or "Obongo"? It just muddies the argument. Stop it. I don't like Obama either, but I don't need to invoke images of him as a tribal from Africa to say that. Just a request....

It's not racist. What's racist is to think that Obama is supposed to be immune to mockery just because he's black.