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Breaking: Senate Democrats Gather In The Rules Committee To Eliminate The Filibuster
Gateway Pundit ^ | 04/22/10 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 04/22/2010 2:31:27 PM PDT by American Dream 246

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1 posted on 04/22/2010 2:31:27 PM PDT by American Dream 246
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To: American Dream 246
Filibuster for me but not for thee.

Let them try, it will be easier to de-construct Obamacare later.

2 posted on 04/22/2010 2:32:44 PM PDT by AU72
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To: American Dream 246

democrats play dirty


3 posted on 04/22/2010 2:35:05 PM PDT by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: AU72

Yep what they really want is to eliminate the filibuster at times like now, when you have a Democrat president and Democrats controlling Congress.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they write this new rule, so that it expires at the end of this Congress. That way, the next time Republicans are in charge of the Senate, they would still be bound by the old rules.


4 posted on 04/22/2010 2:35:25 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: American Dream 246

Thye know the game is just about up and American people will want their heads.


5 posted on 04/22/2010 2:35:27 PM PDT by bestintxas
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To: AU72
Let them try, it will be easier to de-construct Obamacare later

Yup.
Now we won’t need 60 seats to kill 0bamacare in 2013.
Bring it on suckers!

6 posted on 04/22/2010 2:36:19 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: AU72

Not sure it matters anymore... Most Americans understand that the Constitution is being maligned by the Democrats. It means little that the Senate has just a bit of power left to obstruct. Let them try this in about 7 months...heh.


7 posted on 04/22/2010 2:36:27 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: AU72
You know that as soon as the RATs lose power in the Senate it will be back to "Filibuster-Forever."

I remember during the Bush judicial confirmation filibusters reading beaucoup pieces in the NYT and other MSM outlets about how the Senate is to act like a saucer to cool off legislation, blah, blah, blah. It is so [not] amazing that we don't see any editorials along those lines now.

8 posted on 04/22/2010 2:36:55 PM PDT by Martin Tell (ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I wouldn’t be surprised if they write this new rule, so that it expires at the end of this Congress. That way, the next time Republicans are in charge of the Senate, they would still be bound by the old rules.

Easy. We reinstate their rules, and use the new rules to kill every Marxist bill they promulgated.

9 posted on 04/22/2010 2:38:01 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: American Dream 246

...because of the filibuster rule, they hopefully
don’t have the votes to end the filibuster rule.
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wiki sez:
The term “filibuster” was first used in 1851.
It was derived from the Spanish filibustero, which translates as “free booter” or “pirate”.
The term was applied at the time to American adventurers,
who sought to overthrow the governments of Central American states,
and was transferred to the use of the filibuster in debate,
which was seen as a tactic for pirating or hijacking the debate.


10 posted on 04/22/2010 2:39:04 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Greetings, and how are you today, comrade?)
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To: bestintxas
“Thye know the game is just about up and American people will want their heads.”

This is like the thief that knows he is about to be arrested so he continues to commit crimes with a “oh what the h*ll" attitude.

11 posted on 04/22/2010 2:39:19 PM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Thanks American Dream 246.


12 posted on 04/22/2010 2:40:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Gabrial

The Toyota Regime.

We press on the brakes as hard as we can and instead it accelerates out of control over a cliff.

80% of Americans don’t trust this government, and the government in response is hell-bent on screwing us as bad as they can while they can.

Is there any way to recall this product and fine the people who created it and advertised it as fit for consumers? Where are our hearings?


13 posted on 04/22/2010 2:45:29 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: American Dream 246

Don’t they need 67 votes for that to happen?


14 posted on 04/22/2010 2:45:53 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: AU72

You are assuming the Republicans will have the guts to do so. I am not so sure.


15 posted on 04/22/2010 2:45:55 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: American Dream 246

The magnitude of the damage that they will do if they kill the filibuster is staggering to the point in which what happens in November will not matter! You are about to watch a complete and total make over of the Republic into a Socialist/Fascist state! The death of the Republic is near at hand.


16 posted on 04/22/2010 2:46:49 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: American Dream 246
Are they going to eliminate it just till the end of Obama's term or forever?

They're so desperate to complete the devil's work...but this is their last stand. We take control in 2010.

sw

17 posted on 04/22/2010 2:47:47 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: AU72

Just my thought. Only thing that won’t be reversible is if they get amnesty through because of it.


18 posted on 04/22/2010 2:47:53 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Kartographer

Yes sir’ree, Bob. I am with you. These bastards are coming over the wall.


19 posted on 04/22/2010 2:48:47 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Please God, watch over our country.)
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To: Gabrial
"This is like the thief that knows he is about to be arrested so he continues to commit crimes with a “oh what the h*ll" attitude."

Or someone charging up their credit cards to the max, knowing they are going to declare bankruptcy.

20 posted on 04/22/2010 2:50:20 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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