Posted on 04/07/2017 8:01:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Filibuster only guarantees that the Minority Party controls the Agenda.
If it isn’t a Constitutionally Mandated like the Supermajority required for approving a Constitutional Amendment or Impeachment why is it there?
The days of Democrats caring about the Constitution and the Nation are gone forever. Sadly, there are many Republicans suffering from the same affliction.
What strikes me as humorous is that Obama got everything he wanted even when the Republicans controlled the Legislature.
Switch the Party affiliations and the Republican President would never get anything from the Democrat Controlled Legislature.
The Partisanship would never allow it and the Republicans are unwilling and unable to act like Democrats. A Democrat President could walk around the White House smoking Crack while screaming Allah Akbar and the Democrats would defend him to the end, it’s as simple as that.
“A Democrat President could walk around the White House smoking Crack while screaming Allah Akbar and the Democrats would defend him to the end, it’s as simple as that.”
I think they already did that, din’t they?...
I agree 100% with you, but you are too kind to the Dems. (See my post 40).
Have a great weekend.
Sorry... Post 39
A Democrat President could walk around the White House smoking Crack while screaming Allah Akbar and the Democrats would defend him to the end, it’s as simple as that.
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You should probably use an example that hadn’t already happened...<: <: <:
Yep. The rule any more is only about obstruction. Doesn’t have anything to do with statesmanship.
Yep. The rule any more is only about obstruction. Doesn’t have anything to do with statesmanship.
F the fillbuster, it violates the will of the majority, it’s not in the constitution it’s a rule that never should have existed.
Dems will block everything so we really ought to get rid of it all together, otherwise nothing will pass that can’t be done via filibuster immune “reconciliation”.
What’s to keep any senator from talking until he drops? Any subject. Any time.
I think there’s something to be said for the Senate moving deliberately on legislation. I would require 60 votes for cloture on the first cloture vote, but reduce the threshold to 59 after two weeks, to 58 after two more weeks, etc., until only 50 votes are required for cloture after 20 weeks. So the most that 49 senators could do is delay a bill for five months, sort of like the House of Lords used to be able to do in the UK.
That works for me. But the way it is now is unacceptable, 41 permanently blocking the will of 59 is repugnant.
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