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Senate Democrats Poised for Power Grab
Fox News ^ | 23 Dec 2010 | N/A

Posted on 12/23/2010 9:29:22 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

Senate Democrats are going to be working over the Christmas break to deliver a lump of coal to the American people in the form of a radical changing of the Senate's rules. This is a naked power grab by liberals in the Senate pure and simple.

The National Journal reports that Senate Democrats are laying the groundwork to chip away at the filibuster on January 5, 2011. They are going to push the idea that a simple majority of the Senate can abolish the filibuster rules, or radically change the rules, in a new Congress.

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/filibuster/2010/12/23/senate-democrats-poised-power-grab#ixzz190FZDuFW

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; 20110105; communists; congress; democrats; fillibuster; harryreid; rats; reid; senate; tomudall; udall; ussenate
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To: Jet Jaguar

Go for it. There will be a Republican Senate in 2 years.


41 posted on 12/23/2010 10:41:44 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: Jet Jaguar
Big deal. Won't help them at all. The House will stop anything they start.

*And* it will destroy the Senate in terms of being more deliberate than the House, seriously weakening it in the overall scheme.

Shit dawg, go for it, losers.

42 posted on 12/23/2010 10:45:38 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Lazamataz


43 posted on 12/23/2010 10:47:09 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Lazamataz
The House will stop anything they start.

What has already been passed in the house that they want to push through in the Senate? Are there not a few bills floating around that need only Senate approval?

44 posted on 12/23/2010 10:49:11 PM PST by meyer (Obama - the Schwartz is with him.)
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To: meyer

I believe you can do some judge-confirming stuff in the Senate only, but I’m betting our Supreme Court guys are hanging on by their fingernails after THIS president. Bet ya no one retires, or even DIES. lol


45 posted on 12/23/2010 10:52:34 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

The Democrats play political hardball all the time, every time. They live for this. This is their whole life in the public sector. This is their idea of war.

The damned Republicans had better start understanding this.


46 posted on 12/23/2010 11:00:01 PM PST by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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To: Jet Jaguar

The best way to actually see a Marxist for what they are is very simple test.

The Ends Justify the Means.

Well, problem is that once this becomes the rules of the street game then no process will matter.

This will become a naked race for totalitarian power that may initiate violent conflict.

Might will make right, no process will have any meaning whatsoever, and America will have devolved into a 3rd world dictatorship.

Forget any thought of a Constitutional form of Government.


47 posted on 12/23/2010 11:01:28 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: Lazamataz

> Big deal. Won’t help them at all. The House will stop anything they start.

Actually, this may be beneficial for Republicans. There are 20 or so Democratic Senators due for a re-election in 2012. Republicans need only 5 of those to win votes, if filibuster rules are not in effect. Also, a potential Republican majority in 2012 will not have to worry about filibusters if Democrats are helpful enough to eliminate them now.


48 posted on 12/23/2010 11:29:37 PM PST by bluejay
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Sorry, but the House has no control over Senate rules. The reverse is also true.


49 posted on 12/23/2010 11:45:00 PM PST by rawhide
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To: JoeProBono

I like the image you posted. Thanks and Merry Christmas to you and all!


50 posted on 12/23/2010 11:47:30 PM PST by rawhide
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To: Blood of Tyrants
...this is probably about putting as many liberal, constitution hating judges in place before Obastard is thrown out on his ear.

Bingo! You win the grand prize.

Liberals know where the power is shifting.

51 posted on 12/24/2010 12:12:41 AM PST by fwdude (Anita Bryant was right.)
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To: bluejay

Yes, if the Democrats prepare this meal now, they will have to eat it themselves in 2012.

My fear is that they are prepared to make this deal for the once in a lifetime chance to pack the Supreme Court with traitorous “progressives”, i.e. fascists.


52 posted on 12/24/2010 12:32:57 AM PST by John Valentine
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To: Jet Jaguar
I can't find the original quotes, but I'm sure there were statements by Kennedy and others during the judicial filibusters of the Bush administration (or maybe it was the power-sharing from Lott, or the Democrat-suggested changing of the Senate Intelligence Committee staffing to become partisan) where leading Democrats said something to the effect of "If it was good enough for the 108th Congress, it is good enough for the 109th Congress."

Of course, that was when "good enough" was in the Democrats' best interests. Today, apparently, if it was good enough for the 111th Congress, it isn't good enough for the 112th Congress.

I wonder why?

-PJ

53 posted on 12/24/2010 12:36:11 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

I call BS.

Majority rule is American.


54 posted on 12/24/2010 12:38:48 AM PST by saltus (God's Will be done)
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To: R0CK3T

At what point do we simply throw in the towel on the now-defunct idea of living in a Constitutional Republic?

If the ends justify the means to our oppressors, and might makes right, and tyranny is upon us, what are we waiting for?

Is there a line in the sand beyond which we will not be pushed? A level of corruption we will not tolerate?


55 posted on 12/24/2010 12:56:36 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Tzimisce

You seem ill-informed. The Constitution, Art. 1, Sections 3-5, clearly allows the Senate to make its rules. Have you actually read the Constitution?

This has nothing to do with the House or laws or the President.


56 posted on 12/24/2010 12:56:47 AM PST by saltus (God's Will be done)
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To: Jet Jaguar

1) This will have limited benefit to the Rats in 2011, because they won’t be able to pass any legislation without the House’s consent.
2) This could have enormous benefit to conservatives in 2013, assuming we win a Senate majority and the Presidency.
3) There is nothing in the Constitution about a filibuster.

Why oppose this? We’ll just be called hypocrites later.


57 posted on 12/24/2010 12:59:34 AM PST by cmj328
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To: saltus; Tzimisce

I think you misread Tzimisce’s post. At least, I hope so.

Because if you didn’t, I did. lol


58 posted on 12/24/2010 1:00:52 AM PST by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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To: saltus

No it isn’t.


59 posted on 12/24/2010 1:09:35 AM PST by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: Frantzie; Jet Jaguar

“Whistle-blowers” like Lt.Col. Terry Lakin, Pastor Dr. James David Manning and Air Line Pilot in Sacramento just recently got the “Government’s”(?) treatment and FCC is zeroing in on the internet, hello???


60 posted on 12/24/2010 1:10:17 AM PST by danamco (")
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