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Harry Reid: the House is useless; they should just shut up and go home, let the Senate run things
one man's opinion...

Posted on 09/30/2013 2:10:04 PM PDT by ken5050

Sen Majority Leader Harry Reid, at a press conference a short while ago, expanded on his comments that anything the House passes is DOA in the Senate, said that the House might just as well shut up, shut down, go home, and save the country the billions it costs to run it each year. "America would be far better off with a unicameral legislature, just the Senate," Reid said.


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; govtshutdown; harryreid; nevada; obamacare; zerocare
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To: ken5050

What a disgusting little twerp! I can’t believe Americans don’t care that the Senate leader is calling for a new system of government. He basically dissed the constitution right there in front of everyone.


21 posted on 09/30/2013 2:22:55 PM PDT by jag.drafting
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To: alloysteel

Oh my no, I thought this was a straight news story.

LOL


22 posted on 09/30/2013 2:23:11 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: dalereed

I’d like to repeal the 17th amendment so the senators would be put back under the control of the states.

I doubt you could ever get the people to give up their vote for senator but maybe we could get rid of statewide popular votes for senator. Go with an electoral type of system within the states where the senator who wins most districts goes to Washington.


23 posted on 09/30/2013 2:23:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: fatnotlazy
"Cruz can mop the floor with McConnell. "

Cruz should suggest to McConnell that if he doesn't get out in front of the RINOs in attacking Dingy, Cruz WILL mop the floor with him.

Somebody needs to light a bonfire under McConnell.

24 posted on 09/30/2013 2:27:57 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: smoothsailing; alloysteel

Smile!!!!


25 posted on 09/30/2013 2:28:05 PM PDT by ken5050 (Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
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To: ken5050

Just shows child predator Reid has never read the Constitution ... the House rules the pocketbook!!!!


26 posted on 09/30/2013 2:30:04 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (A civilian forece funded and equal to the military ... Obama/DHS & Hitler/Gestapo & Stalin/KGB)
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To: ken5050

It’s fairly dangerous around here not to label satire as satire. Unbelievable how many folks just go right to defcon 1. Just sayin ...


27 posted on 09/30/2013 2:30:37 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: cripplecreek

I’d suggest that as a start, each State select one Senator in a popular Election and that the other be selected by and serve at the desecration of the State Legislature.


28 posted on 09/30/2013 2:30:53 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ken5050

“They’re always going on and on about ‘The People’s House.’ My ass..I’m sick of hearing that. It’s the Senate, and only the Senate that has the time and the experience to carefully debate and consider the crucial issues facing our country.”

...and there you have it folks if you never knew before you surly know now. The arrogance and disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America in the hands of the Treasonous Harry Reid. What more could we desire from a United States Senator, who hopefully has sunk himself once and for all. Are you listening Nevada?


29 posted on 09/30/2013 2:31:39 PM PDT by wita
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To: Springfield Reformer

The actual 0bamaNation is less believable as reality than good Satire.


30 posted on 09/30/2013 2:31:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: cripplecreek

The house would, except for gerry mandering.

It is harder to gerrymander state boundaries.


31 posted on 09/30/2013 2:32:18 PM PDT by donmeaker (Youth is wasted on the young.)
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To: ken5050

In response, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) said she, too, favors a unicameral legislature. She elaborated, “When CSPAN2 is covering the proceedings, I never knows which camera to look at.”


32 posted on 09/30/2013 2:32:21 PM PDT by matt1234 (The NRA: Redefining "Too big to fail.")
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To: Paladin2

That stinking progressive 17th Amendment is the reason so many GOP held states are stuck with Democrat senators. The cities vote them in and the rest of us are screwed.


33 posted on 09/30/2013 2:32:43 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: alloysteel

Could replace both by a system of proxy votes, with proxies being bought and sold on the open market.

That could even be a revenue source, with a tax on proxie payments.


34 posted on 09/30/2013 2:34:19 PM PDT by donmeaker (Youth is wasted on the young.)
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To: cripplecreek

That could and did happen anyways before the 17th Amendment. They were just elected by state politicians then, and state gerrymandering of state legislatures had greater effect.


35 posted on 09/30/2013 2:35:25 PM PDT by donmeaker (Youth is wasted on the young.)
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To: matt1234

John McCain just Tweeted that a “unicamel” legislature would make “hump day a national holiday..


36 posted on 09/30/2013 2:35:30 PM PDT by ken5050 (Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
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To: ken5050

Please God, Just strike Harry Reid dead and get him out of our misery. Tonight would be good.

(Well I suppose give him one last chance to be saved and changed before removing him, but please do it all tonight)


37 posted on 09/30/2013 2:35:55 PM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: Paladin2

discretion rather than desecration?


38 posted on 09/30/2013 2:36:23 PM PDT by donmeaker (Youth is wasted on the young.)
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To: donmeaker
Probably.

Spel Czech doesn't always cover fast thumbs.

39 posted on 09/30/2013 2:37:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Springfield Reformer

Did I fall for that crap again. I’d gotten used to honest posts saying what was and wasn’t satire.


40 posted on 09/30/2013 2:38:05 PM PDT by wita
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