Killed The Senate

[Cigar]

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It was a reference to the minority leader's comment on the Senate floor Thursday morning that the tombstone of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) would say that he presided over the "end of the Senate" if the Democrat follows through with his threat to kill the filibuster.

Reid said Thursday he would set up test votes next week on seven executive nominations and threatened to change the filibuster rules if Republicans don't approve the nominations.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mcconnell-campaign-killed-senate-will-be-on-reids

Reid should have done this two years ago, every other President got to appoint their executive staff ... why not President Obama? :rollseyes:

[jillian]

But....but...but.... President Obama is a Kenyan, Muslim, socialist. Oh yeah, and he's black.

[Ransom]

Democrats always want to change filibuster rules while in the majority. Likewise issues like gerrymandering, the shaping of 'bugsplat' districts to manipulate party representation never gets attention unless the Dems are the minority. Jillian's race baiting here typical as is Cigar's turn to whine about the mean ol Republicans dominating policy from the minority not allowing Obama to choose his own criminals, malcontents, and incompetents to run government.

He's made his own bed, Ladies. He's chose the likes of Susan Rice, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, and Jay Carney who have done nothing less but tell outright lies and screw up whatever office they're holding. The Republican Senate seems to be the adult in the room, the filibuster a well used policy by the Dems and they merely don't like it when tables are turned. That's too f'n bad.

Whine on, Cigar. You are such a girl.

[Cigar]

Democrats always want to change filibuster rules while in the majority. Likewise issues like gerrymandering, the shaping of 'bugsplat' districts to manipulate party representation never gets attention unless the Dems are the minority. Jillian's race baiting here typical as is Cigar's turn to whine about the mean ol Republicans dominating policy from the minority not allowing Obama to choose his own criminals, malcontents, and incompetents to run government.

He's made his own bed, Ladies. He's chose the likes of Susan Rice, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, and Jay Carney who have done nothing less but tell outright lies and screw up whatever office they're holding. The Republican Senate seems to be the adult in the room, the filibuster a well used policy by the Dems and they merely don't like it when tables are turned. That's too f'n bad.

Whine on, Cigar. You are such a girl.

Say Good-By to The Filibuster ... Bitch :grin:

[Agravan]

Dems won't always control the Senate, no matter what Cigar and his fellow travelers think. Let's wait until they no longer do and we will hear the bitching about not being able to filibuster when they are the minority.

[Ransom]

Say Good-By to The Filibuster ... Bitch :grin:

I'd rather say goodbye to your back and forth we won we won to "Republicans won't let us do what we want." You are so hysterical about all of this along with your immature race baiting....clearly one of the most unhinged members of the forum, you're such a girl.

[Cigar]

Reid: McConnell Broke His Word, So Nuclear Option Is On The Table

“Senator McConnell broke his word,” Reid said. “The Republican leader has failed to live up to his commitments. He’s failed to do what he said he would do — move nominations by regular order except in extraordinary circumstances. I refuse to unilaterally surrender my right to respond to this breach of faith.”

The remarks were Reid’s first in weeks on the issue of nominations and Senate gridlock, a brewing fight that he sidelined last month in order to pass immigration reform through the Senate. McConnell has been regularly arguing for weeks that Reid is breaking his word by threatening to change the rules with the nuclear option after he agreed not to upon passage of the modest rules changes in January which preserved the filibuster.

“It is a disturbing trend when Republicans are willing to block executive branch nominees even if they have no objection about the qualification of the nominee,” Reid said. “They’re blocking qualified nominees because they refuse to accept the law of the land.”

“Is there anybody out there in America that thinks this body is functioning well?” he said.
Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/07/reid-mcconnell-filibuster-nuclear-option.php?ref=fpa

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., set the U.S. Senate on a potentially chamber-altering course for next week, pledging to use his power to change Senate rules to push through President Obama's executive branch nominations despite furious opposition from Republicans...

Reid told reporters he has the 51 votes he will need to change the rules...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/11/senate-reid-mcconnell-nuclear-option-nlrb-cfpb/2509973/


At long last ... Game-On :wink: ... it's high time Democrats fight back for a change and play the same game Republicans have always played and got away with.

[Cigar]

I'd rather say goodbye to your back and forth we won we won to "Republicans won't let us do what we want." You are so hysterical about all of this along with your immature race baiting....clearly one of the most unhinged members of the forum, you're such a girl.

You can say Good-By anytime you want ... starting now. :hello:

[Cigar]

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/imgs/2013/130712-mcconnell-says-no-to-filibuster-reform.jpg

[Mainecoons]

Whoa, boy, you got him going there, Ransom.

:rofl:

[zelmo1234]

I hope that they do change the rules. The Senate is likely to be in the hands of republicans, Then they can change the veto over ride rules and Obama will not be needed to govern he can go play golf and let the grownup get about fixing the country