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Biden: Abuse of Filibuster Worst He's Seen
cbs ^ | 2/14/10 | Stephanie Condon

Posted on 02/14/2010 9:40:33 PM PST by Nachum

Says Senate's Current Requirement of 60 Votes to Get Anything Done Represents Fundamental Shift in Congress

(CBS) The Senate's frequent use of the filibuster, a procedural tool used to block legislative progress, represents a "fundamental shift" in Congress, Vice President Joe Biden said today on "Face the Nation."

The Republican minority in the Senate has used the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to bypass, to block significant bills like the Democrats' health care reform package.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abuse; barackamerica; biden; filibuster; joethedumber; slowjoe; standupchuck; worst
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To: Nachum

The Republican minority in the Senate has used the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to bypass, to block significant bills like the Democrats’ health care reform package.

Is this or is it not an out right LIE.
Disgusting.


41 posted on 02/15/2010 12:21:19 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Nachum

Hmm. So what’s the Dems’ excuse for the ENTIRE YEAR before Scott Brown was elected?


42 posted on 02/15/2010 1:10:29 AM PST by TruJess
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To: Nachum
...The Republican minority in the Senate has used the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to bypass, to block significant bills like the Democrats' health care reform package.....

LMAO!!!

Follow that statement to it's 'logical' conclusion:

"The Republican minority in the Senate has used the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to bypass, to block significant bills which has necessitated spending packages such the Louisiana Purchase or the Nebraska Kickback in order to get millions of Americans the health care they are now denied. This is money which would have otherwise created or saved thousands of jobs for Americans who not only worry about being denied medical care, but if the next meal comes from a can with a dog or cat on the label?"

43 posted on 02/15/2010 6:50:10 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Nachum

The Dems couldn’t pass their own national health insurance plan when the Republicans could not have stopped them. Where’s the beef?


44 posted on 02/15/2010 9:05:03 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Fiddlstix

That’s just wrong on so many levels.


45 posted on 02/15/2010 9:47:45 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: Nachum

Once again, Biden shows how incredibly stupid he is. There has not been a single filibuster since 0bambi and his gang of thugs decided to wreck America. Why?, because the RATS have had a filibuster-proof majority since November 2008.

Better for the world to think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and dispell all doubts.


46 posted on 02/15/2010 9:53:39 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Nachum

That’s why Reid had to buy the votes of DEMOCRATS!!


47 posted on 02/15/2010 10:01:19 AM PST by lonestar (Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
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To: Nachum
Sorry BUT!

I am confused ... when and where did I miss all of this filibustering?
48 posted on 02/15/2010 11:06:08 AM PST by AKA Elena (St Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle -- and this is war!)
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To: AKA Elena
I am confused ... when and where did I miss all of this filibustering?

More than likely, you missed all the filibustering when Trent Lott was the majority leader and Tom Daschle was the minority leader.

The way it worked during those years was:

TRENT: Would it be O.K. to bring up SB 946?

TOM: We're gonna filibuster that, Trent.

TRENT: Alright, I'll drop it. How about SB 1131?

TOM: We'll filibuster.

TRENT: Won't bring it up then. Anything you won't filibuster?

TOM: In the interest of bi-partisanship, we'd entertain the appropriation bill. If, that is, you'd throw a little more pork South Dakota's way.

TRENT: Done.

Fact is, we'll never know how many times the Democrats "filibustered" under this arrangement. No filibuster was publicly announced; Lott simply never brought bills to the floor.

49 posted on 02/15/2010 11:23:52 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: NTHockey

“Better for the world to think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and dispel all doubt.”

Problem is, about half of the voters will never be told that there have been no filibusters. They will align themselves with Biden’s lie, thinking it more proof of the perfidy of the “extreme right.”


50 posted on 02/15/2010 11:29:54 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

None. THere have been a lot of cloture votes, because Harry Reid never works with the republicans, he often schedules cloture votes before he has even published the legislation.

But no legislation has been blocked yet by a filibuster. A few nomination votes have been held up by failed cloture votes, and Reid has refused to file for cloture on dozens of other nominees, fearing a floor debate.

Also, the types of bills being presented this past year were HUGE expansions of government, not your typical measured bills. Dozens of such bills have made it through without cloture, just as many judicial nominations have been voted on without a filibuster.


51 posted on 02/15/2010 11:33:55 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT ( Self-appointed Thread Monitor)
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To: Nachum

Liberal hyperbole of the day.


52 posted on 02/15/2010 11:42:22 AM PST by klute
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To: Nachum
Abuse of the filibuster? The Republicans have had 41 Senators for - what - 2 weeks? And the liberals are whining about filibuster abuse???

Seems to me that they had all summer and fall to pass their communist health care and energy tax bills if they wanted with a fillibuster-proof Senate and they didn't (thanks to the overwhelming uprising of we, the people). But somehow, with Brown in the Senate for a couple of weeks, we now have filibuster abuse...

Go figure...

53 posted on 02/15/2010 11:45:07 AM PST by meyer (Obama's failure is America's Success)
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To: SoldierDad
Hey Joe, was your head buried in the sand the previous 8 years - you simple minded moron.

Not unless it's brown, stinky sand. ;-)

54 posted on 02/15/2010 11:47:07 AM PST by meyer (Obama's failure is America's Success)
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