Posted on 11/22/2013 12:03:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The rule of law has been replaced in Washington by "yes we can." The events we witnessed Thursday in the Senate, that is Majority Leader Harry Reid's success at invoking the so-called 'nuclear option,' stripping the minority party of its primary power to block nominations, have become a stunning capstone to what has been already a steady erosion of a government of laws down to a sort of semi-political banana republic.
We are now living in a republic in which politicians do what they want without regard to tradition or the best interests of our country.
The rule of more than 200 years since the Senate was formed, as described by James Madison, to be "...the saucer of the hot cup of the House" has been overthrown.
The role of the Senate is to be a deliberative body. The rule of filibuster was overthrown Thursday by a change in the rules....
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How about a deadly attack on a high-ranking Democrat?
I reckon it's just a matter of time at this point.
NSA has photos/audio of everyone from McCain to Harry Reid engaged in bizarre orgies.
There’s been a coup, and now the Senate ‘bath house’ is controlled by whoever fills McCain’s offshore accounts each month.
Pity Harry. You'd be a ornery, vile wimp too if your were castrated.
Pat Caddell, one of the few un-assimilated democrats who, for the most part, does not like the path the Progressives have taken his party.
While there are issues Pat and I would tend to disagree, he presents his position without being disagreeable. An absolute rarity from a democrat and most republicans.
“.... he presents his position without being disagreeable. An absolute rarity from a democrat and most republicans.”
Truth, when it is spoken, will always be identified rightly by those seeking to know it.... regardless of the mouthpiece used to pronounce it.
~MR CADDELL~
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Caddell is still an active democrat afaik. That leads me to question his motives and/or sanity.
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