Posted on 12/23/2010 9:29:22 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
The senate numbers up in ‘12 are 23 Rats and 10 GOP.
Next, a new “rule” that allows legislation to be passed by the Senate alone, bypassing the House.
Only half kidding. If Democrats could get away with it, they would.
When's the last time Republicans have ever "done the same thing" as Dims to push through legislation? Most of them are gutless wonders, spineless RINOs, and Jello fellows who worry more about being "liked" by their opponents than they do about actually representing their constituents.
These guys better be careful what they wish for. Odds are pretty high that they will lose their majority in 2012.
IMO there will be that day, when people KNOW this has gone too far and now their Freedom is a stake.
American’s have sacrificed too much over the course of our history to remain silent.
The unfortunate reality is that once a tipping point has occurred then the resulting conflict will be extreme.
The biggest failure of all, will be with the Free Press because if they were doing their jobs correctly America would be well informed of its current trajectory.
With this and the abuse of reconciliation it should be open season on Democrats when the GOP retakes the Senate.
I'll bet you are wrong. If they change the rules for their own chamber, the House GOP will simply accept it. This lame-duck session established a pattern: defiant talk followed by acquiescence in whatever the Dems wanted. It's a pattern we're likely to see next session.
Any “Senate Rules” experts.... it would seem to change a rule requires more than a simple majority, maybe even a 2/3’s majority. No?
The dems must be counting on the Pack-o-RINOS, otherwise just another poorly thought out dingyharry BS trip.
There are more Senate RATs up in 2012 than Republicans. The Tea Party has all those Senate RAT and RINOs names on their high priority “vote out” list. These loathsome “enemies” of freedom and haters of our Constitution” can count on their defeat in November 2012. We The People won’t tolerate traitors who vote to destroy our nation and work to destroy our children and grandchildren’s future any more than our forefathers put up with it.
Murkowski and her ilk can count on their defeat when they come up for re-election or until their dirt is exposed and they’re run out of office.
There are still plenty of RINOs who didn’t come up for re-election this year. They’ll cave to the RATS and we’ll have all three branches destroying the nation.
Yeah? The Repubs are mumbling something about Senate Rules and will do nothing to stop the Dems. They rarely do. So get used to it.
Great post but I would offer one small amendment!
THE HOUSE TRULY DOES RUN THE SHOW, if they can be made to realized it.
Changing the rules on a day other than the first day of a Congress (which is when the rules are initially adopted) would take 67 votes. So if the Democrats are dumb enough to get rid of the Senate filibuster at a time in which the GOP will have a large House majority (so there won’t be any liberal House-passed bills for the GOP Senate minority to filibuster in the first place) and just two years before the GOP will definitely have a Senate majority (I have no doubt that the GOP will pick up at least 6 seats in 2012, and it only needs 3 or 4) and probably the presidency as well, then they’re bigger idiots that I thought. The only possible benefit the Dems would get from not having the filibuster rule in effect would be for judicial nominations over the next two years, but the GOP has never filibustered a judicial nominee, and then in two years the GOP Senate would have carte blanche to pass the entire conservative agenda.
Proving yet again that Dimocrats do not understand the first rule of politics which is:
When you find yourself in a hole STOP DIGGING!!!
[ Bet ya no one retires, or even DIES. lol]
Not without help anyway, and I certainly wouldn’t put it past these evil Socialist bastards. Hope the Supreme Court justices who are on the side of the Constitution and the rule of law have good security.
“With a GOP controlled House, they would be cutting their own throats if a simple majority could end filibuster and bring bills to a vote.”
It’s all about appointing as many judges as they can before Obama leaves. Maybe they also have some vain hope of passing an amnesty bill if they drug the members of the House.
Senate RINOs eager to take a dive...
And most of these A-Holes continue to get voted in. As a nation as a whole (FReepers not included), we are politically ignoramuses.
They can also pay back the money they stole from us.
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