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Posted on 11/21/2013 8:45:41 AM PST by ken5050
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To: onyx
Nietzcheian moment...they have stepped up to the edge of the abyss..looked down, and the abyss is looking back..
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:12:24 AM PST
by
ken5050
(Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
To: tapatio
This is the vote on the nuclear option...
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:12:55 AM PST
by
ken5050
(Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
To: ken5050
They’re voting whether or not to overrule the chair.
To: ken5050
Procedural vote on changing filibuster rules. Simple maj needed.
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:13:19 AM PST
by
MestaMachine
(My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
To: ken5050
Niels Lesniewski @nielslesniewski
For those following: voting NO on sustaining the ruling of the chair is the vote that gets rid of the filibusters.
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:13:26 AM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: MestaMachine
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:15:04 AM PST
by
MestaMachine
(My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
To: HamiltonJay
History shows the lower the number is the more chaotic government becomes, having a higher number ensures that both parties work together no matter who is in the majority. You're right. I'm no big fan of George Will, but he once said something I agree with: Government gridlock is good. If a law cannot be agreed upon by both parties, then it probably isn't a good law.
Obamacare is a prime example of that.
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:15:05 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: MestaMachine
They are actually going to pull the pin on this grenade.
If they'd do this, they'd do anything.
Anything, including genocide.
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:15:15 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: ken5050
I don’t know what they are voting on now.. It's the senate. Neither do they.
/johnny
To: MestaMachine
Where’s McCain’s Gang of 14 now!! He and his cronies prevented Bill Frist from doing what Reid is doing now.
But of course, I know the answer, because McCain and his cabal were in cahoots to prevent CONSERVATIVES from getting on the courts, while they are all for getting LIBERALS on the courts.
To: ken5050
Leahy is still alive? We need term limits.
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:17:19 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: JRandomFreeper
I don’t know what they are voting on now..
It's the senate. Neither do they. You've got my vote for Post of the Month.
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:19:06 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: MestaMachine
” It’s zoomed and isn’t showing right. Gah.”
on your TV? Can you experiment with the aspect option on your TV to keep it from zooming?
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:19:37 AM PST
by
thouworm
To: mrsmith
Actually if Reid goes nuclear, McConnel should bring up the bill from Congress to kill Obamacare. Let Reid kill that one without an up or down vote.
The media would go nuts.
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:19:50 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
("Senator Cruz basically made the Democrats fight for a whole bunch of things that they already had.")
To: ken5050
Look! Squirrel!
Pay no attention to that ObamaCare behind the curtain!
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:20:01 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
To: ken5050
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:20:23 AM PST
by
onyx
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To: cotton1706
Huge mistake here. HUGE. If they succeed, and it looks like they will, all hell will break loose.
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:21:26 AM PST
by
MestaMachine
(My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
Well, great idea, but they’re only voting on changing the “filibuster rules” for certain nominees!
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:22:15 AM PST
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onyx
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To: MestaMachine
Huge mistake here. HUGE. If they succeed, and it looks like they will, all hell will break loose.Huge mistakes is what the Democrats do, in place of consulting and abiding with the will of the people.
c.f.: Obamacare.
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:22:45 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: cotton1706
McConnell could have shut this down by threatening to deploy a nuclear carpet bomb campaign for the Vitter Amendment.
If the Dems want to go nuclear then the only threat that will work for the GOP is a promise of MAD.
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posted on
11/21/2013 9:22:54 AM PST
by
lodi90
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