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Report: Senate Dems preparing to filibuster Trump’s SCOTUS nominee — no matter who it is
HotAir ^ | January 30, 2017 | Allahpundit

Posted on 01/30/2017 10:55:14 AM PST by Trump20162020

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To: Trump20162020

When are the votes on Sessions, Tillerson, et al.?


21 posted on 01/30/2017 11:03:40 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: umgud
We didn’t do this to Clinton or Obama.

If you don't count Garland, yes.

Use the Nuke, they will never play fair, no matter what we do.

I doubt that McConnell could get the 50 votes needed to change the Senate rules to do away with the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees. McConnell himself has said he's reluctant to do so. Collins, McCain, Graham, Paul, Sasse, and Flake are all likely to vote against it.

22 posted on 01/30/2017 11:04:00 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Well then we need to put pressure on Kentucky voters...maybe by sending ‘snail mail’ to the offices of these people from the Voting Americans???


23 posted on 01/30/2017 11:04:47 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Trump20162020

President Trump keeps shaking the bushes...and weak and infirm continue to fall out. Remember who they are.


24 posted on 01/30/2017 11:04:54 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Trump20162020

I predict it will not happen. The Dems will play the game and prolong the vetting process. But in the end....they MUST have an up or down vote. Pretty important that the seat gets filled for both parties. Makes the lower courts superior....


25 posted on 01/30/2017 11:05:44 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Trump20162020

IOW, their egos matter more than America.


26 posted on 01/30/2017 11:07:18 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Col Frank Slade

“Does McConnal have the balls to do it ?”


Well, Trump has McConnell’s balls in a vise - his wife is up for a cabinet post. Trump doesn’t get the action he needs from from the Turtle, Mrs. Turtle gets her nomination withdrawn or a big, “You’re FIRED!”

Nope, this will go through. The Turtle may have to go nuclear, but it’ll go through. People elected Trump to do a whole bunch of things, and if the Senate Dems stand in the way, they’re going to get run over by a high-speed freight train. The Senate rules are ONLY RULES - not law, and not part of the Constitution. The Dems set the precedent of changing them to get things done, and now the Pubbies can do the same.

Hell, Trump can meet with Schumer and the rest, and let them know that either they have hearings and allow a vote, or he’s going to push for BOTH the nuclear option AND and expansion of the Supreme Court to 15 Justices. That’ll have an effect, I’m betting. Schumer will cave. Besides, I’m sure that Trump and his people can dig up some dirty on Scummy Chuckie - he IS a politician from the Party of Corruption, after all.


27 posted on 01/30/2017 11:08:34 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Trump20162020

I believe we are under siege and we just are not quite seeing it ...yet.

“the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.”


28 posted on 01/30/2017 11:11:30 AM PST by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Trump20162020

When Hillary was up big in the polls, Schumer told an interviewer that the Dems would use the nuclear option if they needed to in order to get Hillary’s Supreme Court pick through.


29 posted on 01/30/2017 11:16:41 AM PST by Meet the New Boss
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To: Trump20162020; Whenifhow

Merkley is also one of the pols at the Portland Oregon airport violent protest h/t whenifhow

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3518759/posts?page=616#616


30 posted on 01/30/2017 11:19:35 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Ancesthntr

Good analysis!

President Trump plays 3-D chess....

And is a master negotiator.

MAGA!!


31 posted on 01/30/2017 11:23:01 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Trump20162020

So?
Let them filibuster - REALLY filibuster.
Make them stand up there and talk talk talk until they drop. That spectacle will soon turn off the public.
Remember, did Ted Cruz or Rand Paul get any support when they actually filibustered? No, they were ridiculed and slandered.

The problem with the filibuster now is that you only have to say the word and the Republicans cave. You never have to actually stand up there and filibuster.

Make them make fools of themselves and the filibuster threat will fade away real quick.


32 posted on 01/30/2017 11:23:17 AM PST by oldbill (ure wa)
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To: Trump20162020

Liberals will be liberals. They can’t help it. Especially now that they are out of power. The only thing that will change their mind, is their phones being blown up over this.

Shall we start a calling Brigade? A group of volunteers who will call congressmen and senators about how they are obstructing the SCOTUS nomination?

I could see a software package where a person would record a short two or three minute comment (say 5 different recordings that are slightly varied in content. The using an autodialer list, can the office of those responsible for the filibuster then set their computer to call the list of numbers, when connected, play the recorded messages.


33 posted on 01/30/2017 11:24:47 AM PST by taxcontrol
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To: Trump20162020

McConnell better grow a new pair if he gave his to Obama.


34 posted on 01/30/2017 11:34:47 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Trump20162020

Don’t fold to the threat of a filibuster.

Make them do it.

A real filibuster.

Non-stop and when they get tired of reading from the phone book, vote.


35 posted on 01/30/2017 11:39:18 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Col Frank Slade

All he has to do is make the fillibuster a true fillibuster and demand they be talking and standing on the floor, and as soon as they stop, take the vote.


36 posted on 01/30/2017 11:40:02 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: txrefugee
McConnell better grow a new pair if he gave his to Obama.

Constituents can start sending these to his office. Maybe if they start piling up in the mail room, he'll get the message:


37 posted on 01/30/2017 11:40:48 AM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: Trump20162020

Anyone who didnt know this was the plan all along, is too stupid to do anything more than passing out flyers.


38 posted on 01/30/2017 11:41:34 AM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

McC should let them talk themselves to death. They want to declare a “filibuster” but not really do one.


39 posted on 01/30/2017 11:43:12 AM PST by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: Trump20162020
Claire McCaskill might as well join in, she won't be in the Senate after 2018.
40 posted on 01/30/2017 11:43:20 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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