[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[ballplayer]

McConnell would have to buy a box of depends first

[funfan]

I thought Mr. Reid did away with it.

[grumpygresh]

When will Mark Levin realize that McConnell would suspend the filibuster if he wanted to oppose 0bama and amnesty.

McConnell already knows what to do, he just doesn’t want to do it.

Levin better wake up and realize that McConnell and his ilk are the enemy.

[turducken]

We need a bare knuckle brawler in the Senate and instead we have an elderly, saggy, turkey-neck.

[JayAr36]

The Senate wimp would like to see amnesty go through. After all he IS bought and paid for by the big money donors who also want cheap labor.

[lordpumblechook]

There are a LOT of things Republican senators SHOULD do...

We shall see.

[abbastanza]

Of course they should changes the rule. That’s what the Democrats would do. But our guys are a bunch of cowards and blowhards. They’ll crap in their pants a little and blame everyone else for the smell.

[b4its2late]

Do whatever it takes. But there are no balls in charge in the Senate.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Our GOP Senators

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There’s your first mistake. They are not OUR GOP Senators, they belong to The Cheap Labor Express. They have been bought and paid for and will deliver amnesty for their masters.
Their only trick is to make us think they resisted.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Mark Levin is right. Mitch should have already done this, passed the original House bill and plopped it on Barry’s desk. Let him shut down the DHS to save his illegal activities. This would be a lot easier for the GOP to defend.