Yes, make the filibuster on the floor the old fashion way. With any luck we’ll have at least one of the Senatorial ‘RATS drop dead from exhaustion.
Unfortunately Flake and Gramesty want to sell America out so I don’t think hey even have 50 votes.
I don’t think they have 60 votes because of the deep state traitor republicans.
I was under the impression that budget bills could not be filibustered...................
The trouble is 3 prima donna Republicans have said they are a no vote.
“If the Democrats want to shut down government, then MAKE THEM FILIBUSTER ON THE FLOOR LIKE WE USED TO.”
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Yup, it would help to make it clear who is shutting it down and why - for the illegals, not for Americans.
Uh, Turtle doesn’t have 51 votes, so this discussion is probably moot.
Make them stand there talking till the last one willing to do so is carted off to the hospital for exhaustion.
EXACTLY! Was the filibuster ever meant to be used by all the minority senators to shut down the whole government? Why are republicans this crazy?
McConnell likes to pretend that he is powerless to accomplish anything without the approval of the Democrats.
I agree!!! How do we best get this word to every single Republican Senator NOW?!?!?!?
“There are 3.6M ‘DREAMers’ — a number far greater than commonly known”:
Yes. Make them fillibuster!
If you look at the 60 vote filibuster no-go where they don’t even bother to make the opposition do a Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and the judicial blue slips that block nominees on the say-so of a single senator, you can see where the Senate over the course of time made itself into a undemocratic bastion of privilege where individual whim and power held sway. Any frustration at these is offset by the self-importance of each senator in knowing they can stop things anytime they like all by themselves.
GREAT POST! Thanks!
The problem is he doesn’t have even 50 votes. Mc Cain and one other are not present. With 2 or 3 Republican dissenters, the votes are not there
At least that is my conclusion
Lets shuts the Government down and deport the illegals!
Amen! As my dad would have said, “Get off your dead, goat-smellin’ asses and get to work!”
McConnell and the entire Republican “leadership” are way too accommodating of their “friends” on the other side of the [non-existent] aisle.
I believe the challenge here is that at the start of each Senate, the Senate passes rules, sorta like the House does with each individual bill. The rules prevent an old-fashioned filibuster from taking place by having the Senate simply move on once a cloture vote is taken.
There are ways around this: In 2019, the Senate can pass new rules; or the Senate can over-rule the parliamentarian (this is ugly, because it creates the legal problem of the Senate asserting that black is white, and relying purely on the fact that only the Senate can enforce Senate rules). I’m not sure if there are others.
What I’d love to see is the Senate once-and-for-all defeat the Democrats’ demands by ruling that the Dreamers’ bill is not germaine to a spending bill.
“51 is all that is required to PASS THE BUDGET.”
But you have to get rid of Bitch to do that!