Posted on 11/13/2013 7:51:18 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Senator Elizabeth Warren got on the Senate floor on Wednesday to charge that her Republican colleagues are still so bitter about the election results last year, they are doing everything within their power to “nullify” the results of that election by fighting President Obama at every turn, including filibustering Cabinet and judicial nominees.
Warren reminded Republican senators that they may hate the policies Obama’s pushed for, but he ran for reelection on them and won handily. Warren called them out in particular for blocking Obama’s nominees to fill the vacancies on the D.C. Circuit Court, explaining that this is a constitutional duty of the president, and “there is no clause that says ‘except when that president is a Democrat.’”
She went off on the government shutdown and all the GOP’s filibusters before getting to what she said was the real reason behind all these tactics.
“We need to call out these filibusters for what they are: naked attempts to nullify the results of the last presidential election. To force us to govern as though President Obama hadn’t won the 2012 election. Well, President Obama did win the 2012 election by five million votes, and he has done what the Constitution requires him to do.”
Warren concluded if the Republicans are going to keep filibustering qualified nominees for no apparent reason, then senators “have a duty to change the filibuster rules.”
Apparently she’s unaware that the Republicans she’s railing against also won elections last year?
Oh, boo hoo. Like the dems didn’t relentlessly try to thwart Bush at every turn.
Hiawatha speaks
You bet we are. So what?
That heap big pile of buffalo chip.
“Well, President Obama did win the 2012 election by five million votes, and he has done whatever he wants regardless of the Constitution.”
Poor lady mispoke, I fixed it.
And am I the only one who recalls Obama saying as little as possible about the Affordable Care Act during the 2012 campaign?
Yes Fauxcahontas,
We believe in America and will stand on the neck of anyone who dares try and hurt it. By any means necessary.
You’ll know they are in trouble when they start calling it Bushcare.
Pray America is waking
She’s running for the WH nomination in 2016, isn’t she?
One of the reasons Rats like her make outrageous comments like this is because they know their supporters and Useful Idiots in general will believe them.
‘Republicans she’s railing against also won elections last year?’
Let’s cut her a break here. It’s possible that her teepee telephone is broken and she has lost touch with the outside world.
All you and your ilk need to know is we are trying to slow down that communist coup ya'll are attacking America with...
The GOP did pretty good last year especially at the state level.
Elizabeth Warren and the word naked in the same sentence
is something I do not want to imagine.
Good for them! I believe everything obama does is bad for America. So anyone that loves freedom, loves liberty, holds the Constitution dear...everyone ought to be fighting obama's policies at all times. Frankly, I don't think the GOP members of Congress are doing enough.
Dear Faux, The GOPe won the House, again, last year.
There are three words that should never be in the same sentence: “Elizabeth”, “Warren” and “Naked”.
Well, since she is part Indian (HA!) shouldn’t she offer a peace pipe instead of throwing verbal tomahawks and going on the warpath?
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