Showing posts with label filibuster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label filibuster. Show all posts
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Him is blocking voter ID lol

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  REP. ANNA PAULINA LUNA (R-FL): John Thune is a problem. I do not like what he's done because he has every ability, and really it'...
Monday, March 30, 2026

J. D. Vance: Republicans have to break the Senate filibuster and destroy the country in order to save it

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Remember when W said to CNN's Candy Crowley in December 2008 that he had abandoned free market principles in order to save the free mark...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Your reminder that today's so-called conservatives look at US institutions and traditions as impediments, same as liberals do

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I am sick of TSA's illegal searches and seizures, and of DHS' deadly incompetence in Minneapolis and at Barksdale AFB. The author be...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

After telling you that war is peace, get ready for the Ministry of Truth to say that the Save America Act about voter ID is a fiscal issue permitting passage under reconciliation

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  In the Senate, Thune resurrects idea of reconciliation  ... Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, posted, “It’s hard to imagine how the SAVE America Act...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

On day six of no talking filibuster someone really should do a welfare check on Senator Mike Lee

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Friday, March 20, 2026

GOP liars portray passing routine legislation under reconcilation rules as a standard part of the process when the gimmick is restricted to budgets and wasn't used for the first time until 1980

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Now they want to make everything fall under reconciliation in order to make an end run around the filibuster.  The Byrd Rule codified in 199...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Senator Ron Johnson, who is implicated in Trump's fake elector scheme, is a fake conservative

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  Move To End Filibuster Now--Before Democrats Do Sen. Ron Johnson, Wall St. Journal
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Trump's voting legislation faces defeat in the U.S. Senate next week

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Trump is convinced illegal aliens vote in large enough numbers to prevent Republicans from winning even though he and the Republicans swept ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Cornyn is the scoundrel Texas deserves

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 Sen. John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass SAVE America Act as Trump weighs endorsement Cornyn, who spent years defending the filibus...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico thinks the constitution's main features are bugs and imagines a past which never existed

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 James also believes in 6 genders and abortion rights for trannies, among other lunatic things.    
Thursday, February 26, 2026

The stupid maggots are all up in arms at Senate Majority Leader John Thune as if he's responsible for stopping the Save Act when it's four Republican senators who have effectively killed it

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Trump did not win a mandate in 2024, otherwise we wouldn't have this constant recourse to gimmicks to pass things by razor thin margins....
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Assorted lunatics who want to end the Senate filibuster

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

How would a Democrat plant in the GOP act any differently from Donald John Trump?

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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Even Laura Ingraham, who used to have good sense about these things, climbs on the MAGA bandwagon of foolishness

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"Do unto others before they do unto you".  
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

2025 Donald Trump pressuring John Thune to nuke the filibuster is 2021 Donald Trump pressuring Mike Pence to nuke the certified swing state elector ballots

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

Nothing shows that Trump is still a Democrat at heart more than his restated support for ending the Senate filibuster

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Imagine the ten worst things either side would pass with a simple majority as soon as it got it. Republicans could repeal Obamacare right no...
Monday, March 17, 2025

This is brutal: A list of Senate Democrats who were all for last week's failed filibuster after they were against it

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 In the first column are 30 Democrats who infamously voted to abolish the filibuster late in the evening on Jan 19, 2022, which failed 48-5...
Friday, March 14, 2025

LOL, 8 Senate Democrats were Yea before they were Nay: 9 Senate Democrats and 1 Independent broke their own filibuster to advance the House Republican continuing spending resolution to a floor vote against which 8 of them then voted as it passed on a simple majority

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 8 Democrats: "See, we voted against it!" The Senate filibuster is indeed a magical, wonderful, horrible, no good thing. It makes ...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Republican Senator Mike Crapo is full of Orwellian crap, says extending the Trump tax cuts which increased deficits by $1.7 trillion won't keep increasing deficits

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   If you're not changing the tax code, you're simply extending current policy—you are not increasing the deficit. The bottom line h...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Ed Kilgore: Senate Democrats have no choice on the dirty continuing spending resolution if it passes the House, have only one filibuster to use in 2025, and now's the time

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Johnson added conservative sweeteners to the CR, which isn’t “clean” (i.e., a simple extension of current funding levels for everything) ...