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McCain on filibuster change: ‘It’s a bad day for democracy’
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Posted on 04/06/2017 1:27:54 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., bemoaned the state of the Senate on Thursday as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to change the chamber’s rules in order to break through the Democratic filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch with a simple majority. Earlier in the day, Republicans failed to reach the 60-vote supermajority needed to end debate and proceed to a vote.

“It’s a bad day for democracy,” McCain said before entering the Senate chamber, where he later voted with fellow Republicans to change the rules. “I think it’s a terrible mistake that we will regret for many, many years to come.”

McCain called the rule-change a “slippery slope” that “will clearly lead to more extreme appointments for both sides” — and could embolden senators to change the rules for considering legislation, too.

“We went from judges, to [a] Supreme Court justice,” McCain said. “What’s next?”

McConnell has said he would not change the Senate rules for legislation.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democracy; filibuster; mcain; mccain
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why doesn’t McCain just go ahead and change his party affiliation to Democrat/Socialist/Communist?


81 posted on 04/06/2017 2:28:18 PM PDT by caver (Trump: Home of the Winner)
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To: dfwgator

YeeHaw............lol


82 posted on 04/06/2017 2:29:42 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: red-dawg

Good job girls. Showing what having no respect or shame looks like......ignorant broads......


83 posted on 04/06/2017 2:32:43 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why couldn’t he have bought the farm and not Don Rickles?


84 posted on 04/06/2017 2:34:42 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yep sure is John. Too bad we’re a Republic.


85 posted on 04/06/2017 2:49:01 PM PDT by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You could have voted against it, John.


86 posted on 04/06/2017 2:57:41 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“For God’s sake, John, sit down.”


87 posted on 04/06/2017 2:58:18 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s been a bad century no thanks to you McCain.


88 posted on 04/06/2017 3:02:22 PM PDT by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Everyday that senile fool stays in the Senate is a bad day for Democracy.


89 posted on 04/06/2017 3:08:52 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Poor John is going out with tantrums, irrationality and ignorance since he is no longer relevant.


90 posted on 04/06/2017 3:12:37 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democracy was lost the day when McCain was first elected and has lost even more every time he has been re-elected.


91 posted on 04/06/2017 3:16:20 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Trump IS MY president and I'm damn proud of him!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Any day that John McCain lives is a bad day for democracy.


92 posted on 04/06/2017 3:35:07 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Honest to God, senator. I’m really finding your remarks offensive lately. I thank you for your service, as I thank all who have served, but your conservative credentials have become a mockery. In other words, it’s becoming clear to me that you’ve ridden the Vietnam trade as far as the train will take you.

Perhaps it’s time to exit, stage left.


93 posted on 04/06/2017 4:30:25 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Idiot. This fillibuster of judges was a rule enacted in 2003


94 posted on 04/06/2017 4:34:46 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: al_c

Someone wake me when McQuig approves a Republican measure or disapprove democrats.


95 posted on 04/06/2017 4:36:16 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: TBP

Adams had his head on straight.


96 posted on 04/06/2017 4:36:57 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Shut up mcqueeg


97 posted on 04/07/2017 2:45:08 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Then why did you vote for it, numbskull?


98 posted on 04/07/2017 2:59:30 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a bad day for McCain because it threatens the need for showboating centrist compromisers in the form of “Gangs of X” of which McCain is invariably a part. They get to come out like rock stars and “break the stalemate” to much applause and camera time. Such stalemates wouldn’t exist without the filibuster. McCain knows that doing away with the filibuster for judicial appointments is the slippery slope to doing away with it for regular legislation. Then the senate could do its business without needing to rely on high profile McCain-led gangs of compromisers.


99 posted on 04/07/2017 3:12:21 AM PDT by Yardstick
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