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GOP senators wary of nuking filibuster
thehill.com ^ | 11/27/16 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 11/27/2016 7:28:18 AM PST by ColdOne

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To: ColdOne
Typical...the only avenue open to the Republican side of the Senate is to go nuclear...Progressives wouldn't hesitate for a nano second to do just that.....GOP Senators for the Lord's sake don't go wobbly now, you are not facing gentlemen, you are facing your executioners<....who want to see Socialist venues in place of Capitalistic ones.

GO NUCLEAR FROM THE START GOP.THINK HARRY REED, NANCY PEILOSI AND SEE RED...THEY ARE THE CAUSE OF TRUMP, NEVER FORGET IT.

21 posted on 11/27/2016 7:56:50 AM PST by yoe (I am getting my country back! Hooray!)
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To: ColdOne

It’s not nuclear, it’s the Dingy Harry Rule.

Goose. Gander.


22 posted on 11/27/2016 8:02:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: ColdOne

“If you gut the legislative filibuster, you are stopping conservatives from being able to fight for limited government,” he added in a recent op-ed.

That would be just fine if conservatives ever fought for limited government. Just when Trump gets in office, conservatives fighting limited government suddenly morphs into Republicans refusing to fight Democrats.

Trump fought the whole world and won, now he has to take on Republicans.


23 posted on 11/27/2016 8:03:10 AM PST by odawg
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To: ColdOne

Can’t wait for McConnell to meet the wrath of Trump’s Twitter feed


24 posted on 11/27/2016 8:03:36 AM PST by Sybeck1 (Remember that time the holier than nows caused the loss our 2nd ammendment?)
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To: ColdOne

Because the DC political class has no spine....Mitch in particularly has no berries or twig. He is a eunuch


25 posted on 11/27/2016 8:03:41 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ColdOne

McConnel is a wimp. Harry Reid effectively nuked the filibuster and when McConnel had the chance to keep Reid’s new rules he wimped out. In politics the Dims wage war and the GOP wimps out.


26 posted on 11/27/2016 8:06:42 AM PST by Wuli
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To: BRL

Yup. 59 will hold the line, and 41 will retain every last bit of liberlism.

“We tried!”


27 posted on 11/27/2016 8:08:21 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (The Media were SuperPacs for Clinton. Throw them in prison.)
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To: ColdOne

Consider the source. The Hill?

I think we’ll continued to be barraged with articles like this that have one goal; to disillusion us.

Now. us Deplorables don’t give a rat’s ass what the opinion whores and media scum think.

I think the climate is going to change dramatically in the Senate. Not because of, but despite McConnell. Imagine any GOP Senator stating he was afraid to play hardball with the demonrats after the kind of campaign Trump waged?


28 posted on 11/27/2016 8:21:00 AM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: ColdOne
Democrats went "nuclear" on most administration and judicial nominations in 2013, but maintained that threshold for Supreme Court picks.

The only reason Reid didn't go "nuclear" on SC nominations in 2013 is that there weren't any.

29 posted on 11/27/2016 8:31:08 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: BRL

They don’t want to nuke it so They can play games. With the 60 vote threshold then every republican will vote the conservative position. With a 50 vote threshold they will be smoked out like the dirty rats they are when they vote to destroy conservative apppintments.
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30 posted on 11/27/2016 8:31:22 AM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: ColdOne

They need to quit worrying about their careers and so what is right for the country and throw in with the nuclear option to get Supreme Court fixed.


31 posted on 11/27/2016 8:33:47 AM PST by Citizen Soldier ("And I was born to pull turnips!" Demelza Poldark)
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To: yoe

Put Pence in to sit over the Senate and bring a whip.
KILL THE FILIBUSTER OR DROWN IN THE SWAMP

LETS GO

GET THE TRUMP TRAIN ROLLING FULL SPEED AHEAD AND DAMN THE TORPEDOES


32 posted on 11/27/2016 8:36:36 AM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: mazda77

There should be a new party—I am SO sick of these republipukes. No backbone anywhere to be found.
Do they not realize they are the ones(to a large extent), that made Trump


33 posted on 11/27/2016 8:50:04 AM PST by bantam
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To: Maceman
Other parts missing as well:
34 posted on 11/27/2016 8:53:32 AM PST by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: ColdOne

Spineless.


35 posted on 11/27/2016 8:57:12 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: ColdOne
Senate Republicans are wary of making a historic move to nix the filibuster

Harry Reid already did this historic move. Live with the consequences of Harry Reid's precedent or as Nancy Pelosi said, "embrace the suck."

36 posted on 11/27/2016 9:00:16 AM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: ColdOne

If Senator Reid were still the Majority Leader (thank GOD he is not!), I could see him do a midnight rule, ie last act before closing this 2 year term, of rescinding the ‘Nuclear Option’ ruling! Then the new Senate Majority Leader would have to ‘reinstate it’ for his term if he wanted to use it. We could see this become a regular circus act for every Congressional Term.


37 posted on 11/27/2016 9:10:02 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: bantam

Sure they understand it just as they understand they were telling us “screw you” when they promised us they would represent us when all along they were just there for the K-street cocktail parties where more hands could be found in suit side pockets that could be found on actual handshakes. That was their handshake.

What we are seeing is the calm before the storm as it relates to outing these scum bags. No disrespect to scum bags.

The most important part of any deal is to get your counter to believe they have the upper hand. Then reinforce it so they get complacent and when the rubber hits the road, they won’t even have wheels, much less the tires to hit it with.

As I have always said, arrogance is very deep in Mordor on the Potomac. So deep that complacency reigns because it always has and the preparation to act decisively is unattainable because they have no practice in doing so.


38 posted on 11/27/2016 9:12:22 AM PST by mazda77
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To: ColdOne

What are they afraid of? In 2018 the Democrats have to defend three times as many Senate Seats as the Republicans.

If President Trump gets a third of what he proposed done
before that time, we could well have a 60 Vote block.

If that happens, The Turtle wouldn’t have to worry about it anyway.


39 posted on 11/27/2016 9:17:26 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Islamiphobia is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.” Christopher)
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To: ColdOne

Trump should (quietly and behind the scenes) make the Senate an offer they can’t refuse. He should tell the usual RINOs that if they cross him, then he WILL find and finance primary opponents for them when their next reelection comes up.


40 posted on 11/27/2016 9:22:01 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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