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QUORUM CALL VOTE ON PORCULUS
Free Republic | 2/6/2009 | Danae

Posted on 02/06/2009 6:01:59 PM PST by Danae

(sigh)

Time to bend over and grab the Vaseline.


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To: MountainWoman

Now there is a surprise.

I think that we should inundate Mike Steele to have these three thrown out into the hinterland, Dems don’t want’em and we don’t need em, or visa versa


61 posted on 02/06/2009 6:26:21 PM PST by DaiHuy (')
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To: Danae

Slim, yes, but I didn’t want people to think it is over and give up.. keep calling, keep faxing, keep emailing.


62 posted on 02/06/2009 6:27:17 PM PST by mnehring
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To: acoulterfan
We have a Republican walk out in the Senate on the quorum vote? I hope so. It will leave a couple of Pubbie Senators there all alone.

They might as well cross the aisle now.

No one be speaking to their sorry a$$es now.

63 posted on 02/06/2009 6:27:27 PM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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To: Danae

once upon a time, I remember Reagan quoting someone saying that regardless of the political make-up of Congress, when the people demand something, they will act.

Unfortunately, in Reagan’s day, Americans were much more well educated and had sustained enough historical examples to learn from mistakes.

People are uneducated about the economy. You have liberals dominating the economic, legal, and political education. What you and I know as simple truths, our liberal friends can’t even begin to comprehend. Unless we fix this education gap, nothing will change.

Do we have the names of (2) Full Spectrum Conservatives serving anywhere in Maine’s Government? What about (1) Full Spectrum Conservative from PA with name recognition to seriously compete in the Phili/Pit suburbs and without having to sell themselves as “moderate”? Anyone?


64 posted on 02/06/2009 6:28:34 PM PST by parksstp (Articulate Conservatives look for Converts. RINO's look for Democrat Heretics.)
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To: Mr. Mojo; rabscuttle385

Thank you two...these guys have to GO...i don’t give a sh#t if the people running against them are hardcore democrats...it would be the same thing if they won...i am so pissed i can’t even think right now...


65 posted on 02/06/2009 6:28:47 PM PST by MountainWoman
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To: ncalburt
“Mike Steele needs to publicly tell these three they are dead meat at the RNC!”

He should do it right now and do it on live T.V..

66 posted on 02/06/2009 6:30:14 PM PST by 444Flyer (Don't beLIEve Obama..................Repent Herod!................./Tom McClintock 2012!/)
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To: Candor7

I wouldn’t be surprised if they couldn’t even get a Quorum Call tonight. They must still be waiting for Kennedy’s plane to land. If they need him that much it must mean there are some Dems that are leaning to vote NO.


67 posted on 02/06/2009 6:31:10 PM PST by acoulterfan
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To: 444Flyer

they better be dead meat or the RNC gets NONE of my money


68 posted on 02/06/2009 6:31:28 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: papasmurf

I’m pretty sure it takes a simple majority of the members voting. If all 100 vote, that’d be 51.

60 votes for cloture, quorum, debate.

67 votes to break a filibuster, override, or impeachment conviction.


Since 1975 the Senate voted a rule change and it takes 60 votes to invoke cloture (end a filibuster) but because the Minnesota Senate seat is still vacant and there are only 99 “duly chosen and sworn” Senators at the moment, it only takes 59 Senators to end a filibuster.


69 posted on 02/06/2009 6:31:57 PM PST by jamese777
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To: Danae
THROW THE RINOS OUT OF THE GOP

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""

--  President Ronald Reagan



70 posted on 02/06/2009 6:32:20 PM PST by Diogenesis (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Danae

BOHICA


71 posted on 02/06/2009 6:32:36 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (ESPN MNF: 3 Putzes talking about football on TV while I'm trying to watch a game.)
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To: originalbuckeye

Someone posted the Republican Cloakroom number on another thread and they are answering the phone.


72 posted on 02/06/2009 6:32:44 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Mr. Mojo

Specter already looks like he needs one of those CSI guys to draw a white line around him

He is history, not the good kind either


73 posted on 02/06/2009 6:32:52 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: DaiHuy

If only it was that easy...Hannity is reporting that the final bill is around 820 billion...good night...we are so screwed...


74 posted on 02/06/2009 6:33:12 PM PST by MountainWoman
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To: RummyChick

LOL!

Paging Olympia Snowe- Coat check please!


75 posted on 02/06/2009 6:33:29 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: ncalburt

I am living in PA and there is no way Specter will win in 2010. If he runs and no other Republican runs in the primary to unseat him, the Democrat is a shoe-in!!! I can no longer hold my nose and vote for this clown. I called his office today and asked that he not vote for this bill. I will vote for my first Democrat since 1992. I would rather get screwed by a Democrat then get screwed by one of my own party!


76 posted on 02/06/2009 6:33:30 PM PST by Plumres
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To: mnehrling

Just sent a flamin email to Snowe.


77 posted on 02/06/2009 6:34:05 PM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: MountainWoman; Mr. Mojo
Thank you two...these guys have to GO...i don’t give a sh#t if the people running against them are hardcore democrats...

Don't forget McCain. He's up in 2010 too.

Either he gets an enema and possibly a brain transplant...or he must go too.

Because, after Porkulus Maximus is allowed to feed on live U.S. taxpayers, mark my words, McCain and Graham will return to their pre-determined agenda of carbon credits, health care "reform" with Ted Kennedy, amnesty for illegal aliens, and only God knows what else.

78 posted on 02/06/2009 6:34:33 PM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: All

Isn’t this taking a bit too long?


79 posted on 02/06/2009 6:34:48 PM PST by jacquej
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To: Uncle Miltie

The Senate may not vote on a bill until the debate is finished. It used to be where that someone would stand on the floor of the Senate for hours and read a phone book or something like that.

That action is still an available course of action by today’s Senators.

But about 90 years ago the Senate changed that. Not only did debate have to end, but sixty senators had to agree that it had ended. This changed the Congress.

By failing to show up for work, the Senators could block the bill on any legislation. The Democrats have used this more than the Republicans in blocking Bush’s judicial nominations.

See “cloture” in wikipedia. They did a rather fair job in describing it.

So, you have two votes:
1) Stop debate and bring the bill to a vote
2) Vote on the bill’s passage


80 posted on 02/06/2009 6:35:15 PM PST by Loud Mime (Stop the Clown-Car Stimulus!)
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