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Thread: Schumer regrets Dems triggering 'nuclear option'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    He doesn't give a $#@! about triggering it. He only cares that he is on the other side now.
    Yeah, and he knows that the Repubs can avoid a lot of the Demo filibustering. Especially taking thing thru Budget and Appropriations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    Yeah, and he knows that the Repubs can avoid a lot of the Demo filibustering. Especially taking thing thru Budget and Appropriations.
    And, as the dems boasted of their supreme achievement, obamacare, passed without a single republican vote, now we will start "achieving" with or without their support.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NapRover View Post
    And, as the dems boasted of their supreme achievement, obamacare, passed without a single republican vote, now we will start "achieving" with or without their support.
    Yep and McConnell has started with legislation going thru the budget.....just so the Demos cannot filibuster. He will make sure their votes are recorded down publicly too. As 25 of them are up for re-election.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bethere View Post
    You don't need 2/3 for cloture.

    Seriously.

    Civics is fun.
    Ya Reid got rid of fillibusters for executive nominees period.

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