[FreedBird]

What rules do the Democrats play by? They make up the rules as they go.

[elkfersupper]

I am sick of all of this political maneuvering and reporting of same.

It's like we're waiting to breathe until we fully masticate, swallow, digest and excrete the next step these stooges in Washington are going to take over whatever the media deems to be the issue of the day.

I'm out.

[raptor22]

[raptor22]

[SC_Pete]

RATS always win. Pubbies always give in.

We have Olympia Snowe to thank for Obamacare and the resulting Communist takeover of the United States. She could have killed Obamacare in committee. She sold out her Party and the Nation.

[Truth29]

The GOP hasn't got the intestinal fortitude to do this, but the House could affect the Senate rules. For instance, if the Senate rules are changed so that a simple majority can change any rules concerning conference committees and appointments to such committees, the House could refuse to appoint conferees unless the Democrat Senate were to revert to the old rules.

[traditional1]

This is SPECIFICALLY designed for two things:

The Messiah gets rubber-stamped party-line votes for his Agenda

The Judicial System will be PACKED with Liberal/Communist Agenda Judges at all levels, INCLUDING replacing retiring Supreme Court Justices.

We are truly 3rd World now.

Unless the Republicans grow balls overnite, and CHALLENGE ALL Appointments made by The Messiah previously, and Executive Order Abuse, AND, Boehner de-funds all the Czars, Regulatory Agencies, Obamacare staffing (including 10,000 new IRS jobs), we will have no future, whatsoever, except as communist serfs.

[OKRA2012]

The nuclear option would be devastating on future federal budgets as long as Democrats control the Senate and we retain the 17th Amendment.

Perhaps, a future implementation of the nuclear option would be advantageous when the GOP has control of the Senate and and the 17th is repealed.

[FlyingEagle]

We are Egypt. Obama is our Pharaoh.

[Pilsner]

The Republicans, even if they win the White House in 4 years, are not going to have 60 votes in the Senate. They only hold 8 seats in the Senate "class" that was just up, and the Democrats hold 25. That means that only 30 of the 67 seats up in the next two elections are Democrat, and the Republicans would have to take half of them to have sixty votes.

So the Republicans, even if they take the Senate and White Houuse, won't be able to stop filibusters. And the Republicans will never have the nerve to change the rule, so we need Reid to do it for us.

[Graewoulf]

Lazy Harry is scared of McConnell,
Lazy Harry is scared of McConnell,
Lazy Harry is scared of McConnell,
Lazy Harry is scared of McConnell.

[New Jersey Realist]

This country was founded on a system of checks and balances. Each separate but equal. Move away from that paradigm and chaos will follow as sure as the sun rises in the east. We’ve become too partisan and drink too much of the poisoned water. This has to stop. Harry Reid obviously never studied American history or civics. He is Obama’s stooge.

[bert]

No filibuster? then hands on methods might change some minds, especially if the leading mind is no longer functioning in a conscious manner