Showing posts with label filibuster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label filibuster. Show all posts
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) ...
Friday, February 28, 2025

If you thought the GOP pretending that Ukraine started the war with Russia was nuts, behold Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho who wants to pretend that Trump's 2017 tax law wasn't passed under reconciliation rules

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   Honest to God, these people are clowns. Republicans consider major budget change to obscure deficit impact of extending Trump’s tax cuts ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Trump and Harris agreeing on ending the filibuster rule reminds me of McCain and Obama agreeing on something inadvisable in 2008

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  They both interrupted their campaigns to vote for TARP on October 1, 2008, which became law on Friday, October 3, but did nothing to stop...

For those saying Kamala Harris would get rid of the filibuster just for abortion, she herself said in 2019 she'd get rid of the filibuster to pass the green new deal

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Everything would be up for grabs.  

Trump has long been against the filibuster because he thinks the bar too high to get anything consequential passed in the Senate

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Although the filibuster is not in the constitution, the senate filibuster rule was as old as the constitution, and it acts like the veto pow...

Harry Reid eliminating the filibuster for judicial appointments worked out poorly for Democrats, Kamala Harris tells Wisconsin Public Radio she'd eliminate the filibuster to get a national right to abortion back

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 It doesn't occur to these people that Republicans would retaliate in kind when they regain control of both chambers of Congress, passin...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Lindsey Grahamnesty basically tells Democrats that if it weren't for Dingy Harry Reid changing Senate rules Roe would still be the law of the land

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 This is an odd argument for a conservative to make, hinting at nostalgia as it does for the status quo ante, but Lindsey isn't one, so ...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

US Senate Democrats passed a $2.5 trillion increase to the debt ceiling 50-49 this afternoon without a single Republican vote after 14 Republicans voted to allow a one time simple majority arrangement

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Seems like there's not much wiggle room between a $2.5 trillion increase in the debt ceiling and a proposed Democrat reconciliation spen...
Monday, June 7, 2021

The default position of liberalism is to blame obstruction by reactionaries for republican failure, not the revolutionary impulses of the autocrat

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"The republicans made me seize power". You know whose side they are on when people talk like this. Spengler long ago observed how ...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

Democrats are squealing like pigs over Cocaine Mitch's supposed Supreme Court hypocrisy, but there isn't any

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Americans put Republicans in control of the US Senate again in 2018, with Trump in the White House, so Democrats have no one to blame but th...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Yeah like Harry Reid getting rid of the Senate filibuster rule for "Obama judges" wasn't called "the nuclear option" BY EVERYONE

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Friday, October 5, 2018

Democrats easily had stopped Kavanaugh had Senator Reid not deep sixed the filibuster rule

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We'll see if Kavanaugh is truly the strong borders judge some have touted him to be. Given the enthusiasm for him from the Bush ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Rand Paul on John Brennan: He's unhinged, deranged, an insult to our government

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Quoted here : PAUL: “John Brennan started out his adulthood by voting for the communist party presidential candidate. He is now ending...
Friday, November 24, 2017

Reid junked judicial filibuster, Grassley junks "blue slip" tradition, Trump to pack the courts

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Jake Novak provides the good news, here .
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Mark Levin did a great job eviscerating Republican hypocrite Bob Corker in the show's first hour tonight

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As Levin says, we have Bob Corker's defiance of the constitution to thank for Obama's Iran deal. The Washington Times had a ni...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

Greedy for revenue lost to their business tax cuts, Republicans want to cap 401(k) contributions at $2,400 (they're $18,000 now)

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That's right. Republicans want to penalize savers in order to reward business, but they call it stimulating the economy. The owners of...
Monday, July 31, 2017

Orange County Register thinks Trump has a point, correctly calls for an end to the filibuster rule in the Senate

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Here : The 60-vote requirement to cut off debate isn’t in the Constitution. In fact, the opposite is true. The Constitution’s forerunn...