To: tonydbaker
To: tonydbaker
I heard that the senate filibuster law has only been in place since Bush 43 and has never been used to block a Cupreme Court nominee. The rule was repealed under Harry Reid to pack the lower courts with marxists and then was imposed again. I say trash it and ram it down the democRATs throats.
3 posted on
04/04/2017 8:33:50 PM PDT by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: tonydbaker
There is nothing unconstitutional about the filibuster.
That doesn’t mean that Ditch shouldn’t invoke the nuclear option for Gorsuch.
4 posted on
04/04/2017 8:34:43 PM PDT by
TBP
(0bama lies, Granny dies.)
To: tonydbaker
I will just note that the ‘Buster used to be 2/3 until Mondale had it reduced to 6/10.
5 posted on
04/04/2017 8:40:55 PM PDT by
Paladin2
To: tonydbaker
6 posted on
04/04/2017 8:41:54 PM PDT by
Ray76
(DRAIN THE SWAMP)
To: tonydbaker
I don’t think it is really a filibuster. I think the cloture vote is a contrived rule requiring 60 votes to do something, invoked by ANY Senator. Constitutional? I don’t think so....
10 posted on
04/04/2017 8:50:31 PM PDT by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
To: tonydbaker
The HOuse use to have a filibuster also. It then got to many members and did away with it.
Time for the Senate to do the same. We can always put it back. Trump is the last chance we can’t wait anymore.
14 posted on
04/04/2017 10:55:16 PM PDT by
TomasUSMC
(FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
To: tonydbaker
How the senate conducts the business of the senate is the sole purview of the senate. No one, not even SCOTUS, gets to decide how they handle their own business. If they want to decide issues by thumb wars, that is their business.
Now, voters have a say in who sits in the senate, and voters might react really poorly to sour grapes temper tantrums, but there is no constitutional challenge to such things.
17 posted on
04/05/2017 12:15:13 AM PDT by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: tonydbaker
There is only one reason why people choose to become career politicians: because they want to acquire and exercise power over other people, while invariably claiming to be performing a noble “public service.”Oklahoma Senator Inhofe has been strongly conservative. However, I've heard him say that his motive in becoming a Senator was "to be one of the hundred most powerful people in the world".
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