Posted on 06/04/2010 10:04:00 AM PDT by day21221
Senator Jim DeMint June 4, 2010
U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) voiced concerns that the Senate passes over 90% of legislation without any debate, without amendment, and without a roll call vote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B751mhY-QE&feature=player_embedded
DeMint has some valid and great points.
Wyden tried and end run and was shut down. Good!
These Senators are too busy using the perks of their office to bother showing up for a vote, and even if they do they probably havent read it.
Senator DeMint has been one of the few voices for integrity in Washington.
Why haven’t McCain, Lindsey Graham and the others in “leadership” positions spoken out about this? Why is it left up to Senator DeMint? It appears that the other Republicans are either asleep at the wheel or complicit in all of this.
listen to all of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HodqhJS8jxE
“Why haven’t McCain, Lindsey Graham and the others in “leadership” positions spoken out about this? Why is it left up to Senator DeMint? It appears that the other Republicans are either asleep at the wheel or complicit in all of this.”
Well, McCain is too busy campaigning, like he’s been doing for the last 10 years. He didn’t earn the worst attendance/voting record in the Senate for nothin’!
Legislation without representation. That’s despotism.
When do we stand up and declare, “Your writ doesn’t run here?” Adn back it up with force?
what goes around comes around.
Christie - Demint - Palin - Bachmann - Ryan - Cain - Brewer
I agree. Out with the old - in with the new.
New faces. New ideas. New debates. Renewed fervor for freedom, individualism, exceptionalism, patriotism. Let’s talk about flat taxes, fair taxes, abolishing the IRS, abolishing the education department, preserving our fundamental freedoms and the Bill of Rights. Let’s have that national conversation. Let’s change the media template of controlling phony debates and circular conversations designed to keep Americans fighting with each other.
If the Republicans run McCain, Romney, and Ron Paul I am staying home. Leave the moth balls at home.
The biggest affront to our liberties is Versailles on the Potomac. And among the worst abuses is the “unanimous consent” rule. The lords and ladies of the court find it unthinkable to object lest they would have to READ something to know what it is they are voting on.
After all, why bother knowing anything when the ultimate goal is to control us and strip our liberties away. And we, the stupid, keep selecting they, the ignorant, to perform unnatural acts on us.
Hopefully he hasn’t cheated on his wife or tried to pick up boys.
Then DeMint should publish all pieces of legislation that have been passed without a debate. Let him bring it out in the open.
All those establishment GOP senators supposedly object to DeMint’s ‘grandstanding’—as in they’d prefer he’d just keep quiet and go along with business as usual.
the coup continues...
Actually there were not ratified by a “show of hands”. The floor manager at the time would have said something along the lines of “Mr. President (here referring ot the President of the Senate, who in fact is usually a member of the majority party sitting in as acting President pro-tem) I ask for unanimous consent for the passage of the following as referred from committee...(list of bill numbers).” Unless a member vocally objects, the measures are passed.
The senate does not do shows of hands. You have to have your vote physically recorded during a roll call vote or a measure is passed via UC.
Precisely. This is what Bunning did during what was so erroneously referred to as his “filibuster”.
That clip is from 1994...
Ernest Hollings was an old-style democrat.
I wonder what he thinks about his party today.
He’s still living, apparently, at the ripe old age of 88.
They are all available for review to anyone with an internet connection at www.thomas.gov
This is outrageous! I guess I should expect the expose’ on this from the “Nightly News” and a full 60 Minutes report...any decade now.
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