Rush: The Senate Is Broken - Fix it now.

Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | April 14, 2005 | Rush Limbaugh

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!

[CDB]

When you post a comment, your tagline is available for change down there below the comment area. If you post a reply to this message with nothing in it, I'll understand! On rare occasions, I have been known to post an empty comment to myself in order to change my tagline. One smart aleck posted back to me on one such occasion that he didn't believe a word of it, and was amazed that I would even post such a thing. LOL!

Thanks! I love those "smart-alecky" FReeper comments, too.

[JustaCowgirl]

You'd better have a darn good tagline, posting a comment like that.

[Deo et Patria]

This is so wrong, I don't know where to begin responding to this. Apparently, you don't follow congressional politics, if you're going to claim that the Democrats have made progress from 1980 to today.

[Mamie2010]

what does BTT!!! mean?

[Jim Noble]

if you're going to claim that the Democrats have made progress from 1980 to today.

Obviously their overall course has been downhill.

But they have been very successful in cleansing their 20 base states of Republican senators.

If they had not, there would be 65-70 Republicans in the Senate today. Instead, we allow RAT Senators to be re-elected without serious opposition from Montana and North Dakota-states where the President gets more than 60% of the vote.

This is as if the Democratic party in Massachusetts didn't run a candidate when Ted Kennedy retires.

It's disgraceful.

[llortami]

One of the beautiful things about the US constitution is its brevity. Adding an amendment with Sixteen! sections runs counter to this.
You could easily cut out 3/4ths of that amendment.

[Dave78]

What's Rush going to say if, five years from now, President Hillary Clinton is nominating Alan Dershowitz to the Supreme Court and the GOP only has 47 or so Senate seats? What will you say then, Rush? Will the dreaded filibuster suddenly come back into fashion?

[E.G.C.]

Bump to the Top. Every time a thread gets a post it's bumped to the top of latest posts.

[MeekOneGOP]

Here's an in your face pic for the Liberal
lyin' jerks trying to smear Delay!

[spokeshave]

Frist was carried back to his office in a canvas bag by the Sargent at Arms after suffering an involuntary Fristoplasty

[swampfox98]

I don't look for the Republicans to do any of this. But I can dream, can't I?

[Theodore R.]

I think he was saying that the Democrats have not won the "macro" war since 1980 but they manage to prevail by "micro" and "minority" means. It is they who know where to be when an issue comes up for a vote, and they are merciless, unlike the cowardly PR-dumb GOP.

[Theodore R.]

Even if the scenario with Dershowitz were to happen, one could count on Orrin G. Hatch, "R"-UT being the co-sponsor of the nomination, for he was co-sponsor of both Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1993 and Stephen Breyer in 1994.

[xzins]

It is evident that the Senate has taken it upon itself to pervert the intent of the entire constitution by use of its parliamentary rules.

The Senate, minority or majority, can stop any business from going forward. I suspect that after a few years in the Senate the Senators see everything in terms of the needs and powers of the Senate.

They have arranged their systems in such a way that work can only be done that a supermajority is in agreement with.

[gakrak]

I am really getting tired of sending emails to senators about their lack of serving the people of the United States. They continually waffle on the judiciary problem. I have sent essentially the same email to Frist,McCain and they are still sitting on their hands.
This is what I sent:

Dear Senator Frist,
Once again I am compelled to write you with a heavy heart. It appears that once again, like your predecessor before you, you are about to cave into the minority on the Filibuster of President Bush’s judicial candidates. Do your job Senator! You have it in your power to provide for an up or down 51-vote acceptance of these judicial nominations. It is extremely important that the majority rules and don’t believe for a minute that if the tables were turned the Democrats would use what ever it took to defeat you.
In case you have not read the constitution recently a reminder may help you. No were under advise and consent is there a reference to a vote. The following is what it says:
"Article 2 Section 2


He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions, which shall expire at the End of their next Session. " Do you see a vote required for 60 votes? Well it appears that a simple letter to the President by 51 Senators would do the job. It does require that the Senate is in session and that a quorum is present.
Do what the people of our country hired you to do and do not delay. Amen.
Thank you for doing what is right.

[Mamie2010]

thanks for the bump

[lonevoice]

Rush is right. We can keep voting them in, but how long can we keep waiting for them to act like they represent their electorate rather than their own career ambitions? Old media becomes less powerful by the day, but our GOP pols are still acting like little girls terrified by the prospect of incurring the wrath of the NY Times or CBS. Please.