Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 11/22/2013 12:47:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
This is not a bad thing. It means that if the Republicans gain control of the Senate next fall (increasingly likely), then by a simple majority they can start peeling back Obamacare.
They can’t, because it specifically provides that if the constitution of the Senate changes (to a GOP majority), the change ceases to be in effect and reverts to the old system (2/3 majority).
All I’m waiting for now is an Enabling Act giving all power to the Executive. VZ’s rigged legislature just passed one.
Now that our Senate has been fatally rigged, I don’t think there’s much stopping it.
No he doesn't.
“.......[Harry] Reid clinched support for changing the rules at the weekly Tuesday Senate Democratic caucus lunch.
.....Reid, without mentioning the colleague’s name, told his caucus that one of its senior members who had long opposed filibuster reform, recently had a change of mind and privately urged him to trigger the controversial tactic.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) then rose before the room full of Democrats and identified herself as the recent convert.
“She got up right afterward and said, ‘He was talking about me,’” said a Democratic senator..... ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3094249/posts
It all comes down to the wisdom expressed in the old saying, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." They are so desirous of, and drunk on, power that they cannot see anything beyond tightening their grasp. The fact that they might one day be on the other side of the power grabs is irrelevant to them.
Half the time I click in to these threads just to see where the story came from. The sentiment is well known to us cons, but Dana Milbank? WaPo?? Really?
Kewl.
The Republican Senators should commit civil disobedience. They should refuse to give up the podium. I don’t think they can be arrested.
The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
Cite, please.
Keep whistling past that graveyard.
The dems have a very powerful, very effective vote fraud machine. A republican win is not "increasingly likely", it's against all odds.
Even if those odds are overcome and the republicans win, they've got a long history of caving to dem whining about "fairness" and will doubtless change the rules back.
Yes, but the Republicans have already said what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander and they’ll vote to keep the new rule.
The GOP can’t vote to keep it (since it expires automatically if the majority changes), but they can vote it again. However, I doubt that they will.
If this hard core socialist not chosen to retire, he'd be in the Reid camp.........
His vote yesterday was an attempt to salvage a possible Michigan re-election of another Democrat in his place........
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