Obama, Senate May Stymie 60-Vote GOP Filibuster Efforts

The Bulletin ^ | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 | Joe Murray

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Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, refused to rule out the possibility the Obama administration would press for the use of a questionable Senate tactic in which just 50 senators would be needed to pass the controversial changes.

Gunpowder time?

[pabianice]

FEEL the bipartisanship...

Six weeks in and a lot of Obama voters are saying, 'What the hell did I do??' The pity is it's too late.

[IrishPennant]

Dims= new Axis of Evil

[Puppage]

a massive budget that stands to usher in historic changes in energy and health-care reform

Can someone please name ONE thing that the government ever took over and made better?

[nufsed]

Interstate highways.

[Puppage]

Interstate highways

Yeah, that's it. Phew! I can relax now.

[doodad]

Why is it that only Dems seem to know and employ all these arcane scottish law and parliamentary procedure tactics? Where and why are these crappy loopholes even on the books?

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Can someone please name ONE thing that the government ever took over and made better? “

Socialism.

[wny]

No suprise. The demholes play at bare-knuckled take-no-prisoner politics. The wusspublicans play by the Marquis of Quennsbury rules. If I recall, the wussies didn't go "nuclear" on the judges because the demholes might do so against them in the future? well they will anyway.

The wussies will always be losers unless and until:

1) they realize the media is their enemy and will do everything they can to defeat them

2) they grow a pair

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[prismsinc]

No need. We can barely see the toes of Snowe, Collins and Specter coming out of Obama’s rear end.

[pollywog]

Six weeks in and a lot of Obama voters are saying, 'What the hell did I do??' The pity is it's too late.

they are???? I don't hear this yet! sigh~

[DesertRhino]

That old McCain “gang of 14” thing really bought us a lot of demonrat goodwill, huh?

[Right Cal Gal]

Of course now that the Dems have their majorities it’s time to change the rules they insisted on when they were in the minority.

Okay, GOP - toe the conservative line, get our majorities back and when the libtards come crying for “fairness and power sharing” tell them to pound sand.

[SolidWood]

I do. They don’t admit it ouright (yet), but some are already wearing thin.

[OB1kNOb]

AMERICA'S NEW AXIS OF EVIL

[scooby321]

Rino’s thank you.

[philman_36]

Interstate highways.
All the government ever did was provide funding for the highway system. And that actually came out of our pockets in the form of gas and motor-vehicle user taxes.
The individual States did the work. Every State has a highway department.

[philman_36]

Read #19. The government never “took over” the highways.