Mark Levin said that our GOP Senators should suspend the filibuster to pass DHS without Amnesty

March 2, 2015 | Ralph Mitchell

[bandleader]

I AGREE!”Dingy Harry”did it;why can’t we???????????????

[txrefugee]

Mitch “The Tortoise” McConnell will never have that much moxie. This tortoise will never catch up to the hare, Reid, who is still running the Senate.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

That would take courage and a sense of honor.

[Blood of Tyrants]

That would require a backbone and guts. The GOPe have neither.

[The_Victor]

I suppose I’ll be corrected if I’m mistaken, but I thought funding bills weren’t subject to the 60 vote cloture rule.

[mitchell001]

Our friend Principled gave me these links. Please CALL.

alpha by state: https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state

alpha by Senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

find ‘em
call ‘em
hound ‘em

[tanknetter]

It’s a two-step process. First budget (early in the year) then appropriations (late in the year)

Budget bills are subject to Reconciliation, which is a simple majority vote.

This is an appropriations bill, which isn’t and still subject to filibuster.

[vmivol00]

Ted Cruz was right. He said the GOP didn’t want to defund and that this was all theatre. How else do you explain attaching the defunding to DHS? They could have done it any number of ways, and they chose the one that is most politically expedient for them to fold on.

No way they change the filibuster rules. This is all just a show.

[mitchell001]

Victor. Reconciliation is used to bypass filibusters when taking up budget bills such as DHS. The following is a Wikipedia definition of Reconciliation. By the way, Reconciliation was used to pass Obamacare.

Reconciliation is a legislative process of the United States Senate intended to allow consideration of a budget bill with debate limited to twenty hours under Senate rules.[1] Reconciliation also exists in the United States House of Representatives, but because the House regularly passes rules that constrain debate and amendment, the process has had a less significant impact on that body.

[tanknetter]

Ted Cruz had a much better idea: attach the anti amnesty provisions to the appropriations for an agency that is easier, politically, to shut down than DHS (even if 85% of DHS stays open)

He recommended EPA, but IMHO IRS would have been a MUCH better target.

Problem is those are already funded for this year, and no one thought up that option until just recently.

[The_Victor]

It’s a two-step process. First budget (early in the year) then appropriations (late in the year)

Thanks. It seems to me the situation should be reversed, since appropriations are spending reality, and the budget is make-believe. But there I go applying logic to a government dominated by liberals.

[1010RD]

Perhaps the GOPe doesn’t really want to win this one. I mean the Cromnibus doesn’t point to a change of heart, does it?

[Sooth2222]

That's what I've been saying.

Strategically, what the GOP is doing makes little sense. The significance of the 2014 election is twofold -- not only did the Republicans win back the senate, but they also picked off enough "safe" Democrat senate seats in red states to make the Democrat pathway to regaining control difficult. Not impossible, but difficult. There are a lot of Republican seats up in 2016, but they are mostly in deep red states. Harry Reid won with 50.2% of the vote in 2010 and now has health issues, Colorado's Bennett won with 47.7% in 2010 before Colorado went full retard on gun control, and I think Carson could beat Mikulski in Maryland. Not all the Democrat seats are secure, IMO. And in the years following 2016 -- there are more red states than there are blue states.

[vmivol00]

Now your getting it. If they wanted to win, they would have attached the defunding to something like the EPA. Cruz said the fix was in from very beginning on this. This is just Washington Theatre.

[TexasCajun]

”Dingy Harry” would have already done away with it if the roles were reversed.

Mitch is old and doesn't care any more.

[ballplayer]

McConnell would have to buy a box of depends first

[Fightin Whitey]

And a swinging pair too.

Maybe Jenner’s are available?

[funfan]

I thought Mr. Reid did away with it.

[Principled]

Tell them to eliminate the filibuster rule so that a simple majority may pass the DHS appropriations bill.

Avoid saying “nuclear option”....

If you’re feeling your oats, remind them that the dems used this to govern as they wished - and that they passed 0bamacare with reconciliation.