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Posted on 11/22/2013 12:40:07 PM PST by bestintxas
The Hill ^ | 07/30/13 06:15 PM ET | By Ramsey Cox
Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 6:14:06 PM by onyx
After a contentious fight over some of President Obama’s nominees, the Senate confirmed five members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
On Tuesday, the Senate voted to clear all five nominees — Harry Johnson III, Philip Miscimarra, Nancy Schiffer, Kent Hirozawa and Mark Pearce.
Republicans agreed to hold up-or-down votes on the NLRB nominees as part of a deal to avoid Senate rule changes limiting the minority's right to filibuster executive branch nominations. Two of the NLRB nominees confirmed were GOP picks — Johnson and Miscimarra — and Schiffer, Hirozawa and Pearce were Obama's nominees.
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To: onyx
What a weight off my mind to know that I'll never hear Harry Reid threatening to use the "Nuclear Option" ever again!
What's the over/under on this promise? Six months, maybe?
6 posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 6:22:52 PM by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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This Democrat power-grab only makes sense if it's part of a Democrat plan to prevent the GOP from ever again gaining control of the Senate.
The problem is not the Democrats.
The problem is the RINO party. Their job is to do absolutely nothing. That’s what they DO. There are all sorts of things the Republicans can do to fight back, from stopping funding to getting the word out to making speeches, hitting the television shows and stumping. They can raise holy hell - but they won’t.
NOT doing anything, while getting in the way of anyone trying to do anything, is what RINOs are FOR.
The Rats couldn’t get anywhere without the RINOs. They don’t even have cover stories for their lies anymore, they’re so far out there. They depend completely on RINO protection.
And they get it.
No, but we better not play their game, either. Forget the Senate, we need to concentrate on the House. For example, to highlight this, for the past two years, Speaker Boehner should have gone in front of the press EVERY DAY, and said the following:
“The House has done the job that the American people sent us here to do by passing a budget. I invite Senator Reid to do his job and also pass a budget. Today is day ____ that he has failed to do his job.” Then turn around and WALK AWAY.
When the budget impasse came up, we would have been much better off. But we didn’t have a long view strategy carried out with iron resolve all along that would have avoided our utter defeat.
bump
Maybe they give Obama an “Enabling Law” before the next election
Boehner is just there to be a member of the club.
The GOP will never do that. I said, which means it probably will happen. You can throw this back in my face and I’ll happily admit I was wrong.
They can’t
That would require the forbidden government shut down
That might be the Rat plan to provoke a shut down to revive their chances to live.
Which is the whole problem. Unless you change the whole “member of the club” mentality, the communist revolution rolls on. The disgusting part is that the “members of the club” are Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries; they don’t realize they aren’t in a club. The other side is waging a war of political extermination against them. If they don’t wake up, the GOP will go the way of the Mensheviks.
Why do they all look like they were just sucking on lemons?
Its a little early to say they got away with it. Way too early.
A real Nuke response would be to completely get rid of filibuster in 2015.
Or, more likely, they think that the senate will go Republican in 2014 and want to get as many liberal judicial nominees through as they can before that happens.
Getting more & more `out of area’ phone calls that I have to ask “who is this?” when they ask for me or my wife.
When they say “Republican National Committee”, I reply “no thanks!” and hang up. Screw ‘em!
McConnell’s `punch in the nose’ threat to the Tea Party is the final dealbreaker.
I’d include a stay in all them ready to go indoctrination camps, payback is a b*tch and so should be their repatriation.
The titular GOP leader has just dissed his own partys base in a big way while Bonehead wants to talk amnesty
The change isn’t legal anyway. Senate rules require a change in the rules to get a 2/3 vote. That’s 67, not 52.
I would not give the DEMs any support. They apparently don’t need the GOP votes to be considered, and by God, they should not get any support! All Dirty Harry needs is his 51 votes, and if he cant get ‘em that’s just too damn bad. Don’t give him anything.
If we could finally bring impeachment charges against Obama, there would be a good reason to call for their dismissal. Remember that Clinton FIRED all federal judges so he could put his own people in. Bush did not do that, and the democrats held up about 95% of his appointees, so that by the end of his 8 years, the bench was very thin. I’ve YET to hear that being brought up. Where are the republicans? They just go along to get along, for the most part. THAT is the real reason they hate Cruz, Lee, Palin, etc. They keep reminding them that they SHOULD be doing something productive!
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