Posted on 04/22/2010 2:31:27 PM PDT by American Dream 246
The radicals in Washington are giving the Marxists in Venezuela a run for their money.
Senate Democrats have gathered in the Rules Committee to eliminate the filibuster.
Republican.Senate.Gov reported:
THEN-SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL): “What [The American People] Do Not Expect Is For One Party, Be It Republican Or Democrat, To Change The Rules In The Middle Of The Game So They Can Make All The Decisions While The Other Party Is Told To Sit Down And Keep Quiet.” “What they do not expect is for one party, be it Republican or Democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game so they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet. The American people want less partisanship in this town, but everyone in this Chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting, the bitterness, and the gridlock will only get worse.” (Sen. Obama, Congressional Record, S.3512, 4/13/05)
THEN-SEN. JOE BIDEN (D-DE): “I Pray God When The Democrats Take Back Control, We Don’t Make The Kind Of Naked Power Grab You Are Doing.” (Sen. Biden, Congressional Record, S.5737, 5/23/05)
SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV): “The Need To Muster 60 Votes In On Executive Power And Part Of Every Senator’s Right To Free Speech In The United States Senate.” (Sen. Harry Reid, “Reid Floor Statement On Nuclear Option,” Press Release, 5/17/05)
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY) On Any Threat To The Filibuster: “The Basic Makeup Of Our Senate Is At Stake. The Checks And Balances That Americans Prize Are At Stake. The Idea Of Bipartisanship, Where You Have To Come Together And Can’t Just Ram Everything Through Because You Have A Narrow Majority, Is At Stake. The Very Things We Treasure And Love About This Grand Republic Are At Stake.” (Sen. Schumer, Congressional Record, S.4801, 5/10/05)
• SCHUMER: “We Are On The Precipice Of A Crisis, A Constitutional Crisis. The Checks And Balances Which Have Been At The Core Of This Republic Are About To Be Evaporated By The Nuclear Option. The checks and balances which say that if you get 51% of the vote you don’t get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing it’s almost a temper tantrum by those on the hard right. They want their way every single time, and they will change the rules, break the rules, misread the Constitution so they will get their way.” (Sen. Schumer, Congressional Record, S.5208, 5/16/05)
SEN. ROBERT BYRD (D-WV): “I Believe That Efforts To Change Or Reinterpret The Rules In Order To Facilitate Expeditious Action By A Simple Majority, While Popular, Are Grossly Misguided.” (“Sen. Byrd Calls Proposed Democratic Changes To Filibuster Rules ‘Misguided,’” The Hill, 2/24/10)
SEN. CHRIS DODD (D-CT): “‘I Totally Oppose The Idea Of Changing Filibuster Rules,’ Dodd Said During An Appearance On MSNBC. ‘That’s Foolish, In My View.’” (“Dodd: Changing Filibuster Rules Would Be ‘Foolish,’” The Hill, 2/17/10)
SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-CA): “Blinded By Political Passion, Some Are Willing To Unravel Our Government’s Fundamental Principle Of Checks And Balances To Break The Rules And Discard Senate Precedent. The nuclear option, if successful, will turn the Senate into a body that could have its rules broken at any time by a majority of Senators unhappy with any position taken by the minority. It begins with judicial nominations. Next will be executive appointments, and then legislation.” (Sen. Feinstein, Congressional Record, S.5398, 5/18/05)
SEN. RICHARD DURBIN (D-IL): “Those Who Would Attack And Destroy The Institution Of The Filibuster Are Attacking The Very Force Within The Senate That Creates Compromise And Bipartisanship.” (Sen. Richard Durbin, Congressional Record, 4/15/05, p.S3763)
• DURBIN: The Filibuster Is “[One] Of The Most Treasured And Cherished Traditions Of The United States Senate.” “Many of us in the Senate feel that this agreement tonight means that some of the most treasured and cherished traditions of the United States Senate will be preserved, will not be attacked and will not be destroyed.” (Sen. Durbin, “Statement of Sen. Dick Durbin Regarding the Agreement on Judicial Nominations in the Senate,” Press Release, 5/23/05)
SEN. BEN NELSON (D-NE): “Filibusters … Give Small States Such As Nebraska An Important Tool To Protect Itself From The Will Of The Larger States.” “Filibusters also give small States such as Nebraska an important tool to protect itself from the will of the larger States.” (Sen. Nelson, Congressional Record, S.5917, 5/25/05)
SEN. MARK PRYOR (D-AR): “I Was Very Concerned That When You Looked At The Nuclear Option, If That Trigger Was Pulled, You Had A Nuclear Winter That Would Follow.” “But in a broader sense, I did this agreement for them because I was very concerned that when you looked at the nuclear option, if that trigger was pulled, you had a nuclear winter that would follow.” (Sen. Pryor, Congressional Record, S.6000, 5/26/05)
The Crats are a Toyota?
The Reconciliation Act 2010 Section 2521. It begins on Page 1001 and is titled "National Medical Device Registry." The section says that a database of class I, Class II, and Class III implantable devices may be kept by the government and database collecting obscene amounts of data on patients may be kept. The section was thought to refer to a registry of devices like pacemakers and other medical implants, but I don't know if the law actually defines what a class I, II, III device are. Though I think that some RFID chips like the VeriChip are classified as Class II's. Anyway the law can be found at the following link
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/111/AAHCA09001xml.pdf
Oh NO, this is just a temporary thing and when the Adults get back the Senate it reverts back to the old ways. For OUR protection, you see....
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“What a commie pig 0bozo is! I hate the socialist-fascist-commie pig bastard. May he rot in Hell forever!!!”
Rant = A+
That might come in handy when we seize power.
Google micro-chip healthcare bill, but it’s on around page 300-305’ish if memory serves me correctly.
You make a good point Kimosabe. If these democrats are so hell bent on pushing their agenda through that they are willing to sacrifice the fillibuster, then let ‘em. It will make repealing most of this stuff a lot easier come 2011 or 2013, whenever the Democrats lose control of the Senate.
The tyranny of the majority (minority) that our founders feared has arrived.
Yeah, but that whole “dictator” thing didn’t turn out real well for Hitler or his Nazi pals, tho’...
There have been people much smarter than the current azz-clowns in Washington, bent on dictatorships and they all end up the same: epic fail...
I hate this party so much, that when we take over, I hope we can eliminate them from even voting!
I guess that would be too ‘democratic’ - but yet again, the Democrats don’t believe in democracy anyway.
WHERE IS THE MSMS?
MSNBC is making pot shows...
NBC is still trying to get olbermans head out of his **s...
CNN is the “gay news” with anderson cooper...
FNC is we love NYC and the crew still hates Beck channel...
the newspapers are full extensions of the DNC...
Dick Gregory works for the white house ...
democrats play dirty
They always have and it is only now that many conservatives are coming to the realization that they play dirty. Bipartisanship has never existed and has only been a buzzword that democrats use as a tool to beat us bloody. This is a war for the Constitution and we had damned well better learn to fight them without regard to their desires or feelings. If we regain control of the government we had better not turn around and acede to their demands in the name of bipartisanship. Kick them until they are down and bleeding and then continue to kick them until they can’t move.
FUBO
The democrat party should have been outlawed in 1865 and it’s leadership north and south hanged as the traitors they were; not that they aren’t traitors today.
FUBO
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