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Posted on 11/08/2025 6:58:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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Thune needs to put The Senate in Recess so Trump can make appointments.
If the GOP folds and democrats get more money for Obamacare, it will be like the national debt: they will come back before long demanding even more tax dollars for their “affordable” care.
More gibs to their illegals? Of course that isn’t even open to debate, so they can (not) filibuster over that until they are blue in the face; on that subject, if they are filibustering, why don’t they have a ‘Mr. Smith’ on the floor spouting gibberish 24/7?
Make them, or they default and the budget passes with majority vote, no nuclear strike.
Not sure how the votes work on this. Could they remove the filibuster and then reinstate it in 2027? Instinct tells me no, that they would need 60 votes both times - but I’m unsure.
I see both sides but if the GOP has 3 years to pass a sweeping agenda it may be worth it; except I don’t see them doing much even with the power. Maybe they’d get a few voting laws through (which would be good) but the budget won’t shrink that’s for sure.
Odd that we are on the cusp of an incredible AI revolution that could make “government” programs run on 80% less manpower, detect fraud waste and abuse, and yet nobody talks about modernization.
Can they end the filibuster and then bring it back?
Trump is right. The filibuster locks in place decades of Democrat policies. It needs to be eliminated so that Republican policies can be advanced, not just the present continuing resolution. Indeed, if it were not for the filibuster there would be no need for a continuing resolution; a proper budget could be passed.
He means it, but the result will scaring the democrats into voting to reopen the government as the lesser of two evils (as they see it).
If he could get 50 to do that he’d get 50 on a number of bills but definitely not all. If every Senator were as bold and brave as Trump the country would in great shape.
In 1995, Newt Gingrich was prepared.
In 2025, Trump is not.
The filibuster probably needs to go, but not before reform bills are ready to go.
It wouldn’t be Trump looking foolish. It would be the feckless Senators.
Filibuster was the Dutch word for pirates. It was used extensively by democrats to block civil rights legislation.
History: The elimination of the “previous question motion” in 1806 removed a mechanism for a majority to end debate and paved the way for the filibuster to develop later.
The motion, which allowed a simple majority to cut off debate, was dropped from the Senate’s rules at the suggestion of Vice President Aaron Burr. Without this rule, minority parties could indefinitely delay legislation through prolonged debate, a tactic that became known as the filibuster.
On one hand, Burr was a rather scurvy character; on the other, he shot Hamilton, so there’s that arrrrgh.
At this point I’m pretty much Duke Nukem: “Nuke ‘em ‘til they glow.”
THat’s right, because Trump can NEVER look FOOLISH, damn it! NEVER!
IF that happens it will prove that the GOP is utterly worthless and not even worth our time anymore..so yeah Id rather know what Im dealing with
They can't even find their own Obamas with both hands and a flashlight.
If the repubs don’t vote out the filibuster, the dems will.
Before not needed because the RINO’s vote with dems.
Some egghead is probably writing an article for the American Political Science Review, “Must The Republicans Win 60 Seats To Control The Senate?”
That’s not taking into account Murkowski, Collins and maybe Paul.
If they can nail down the votes/herd the cats, yeah blow these filibusterers out of the water. Everyone’s had their ration from Schumer & Co.
That is pathetic. But I guess it felt good? Grow up.
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