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To: American Dream 246

Don’t they need 67 votes for that to happen?


14 posted on 04/22/2010 2:45:53 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
"Don’t they need 67 votes for that to happen?"

No. There's a parliamentary procedure involving a point-of-order that would allow them to do away with the filibuster. It goes WAY back to the early 1800s. This is what is known as the actual "nuclear option"

If they do this, it will destroy the comity in the Senate for the next two generation - perhaps permanently.

27 posted on 04/22/2010 2:53:47 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Don’t they need 67 votes for that to happen?

Nope FReeper friend, simple majority vote for a Senate rule change.

80 posted on 04/22/2010 5:22:14 PM PDT by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

I think not. They need two-thirds (normally 67) to convict in an impeachment, or to ratify a treaty, three-fifths (60) to end a filibuster, but a rules change can apparently be done with “half plus one” (51) if the proponents are willing to live with the resulting internecine (i.e. very bloody) warfare. Since many RATs know they’re about to “die” anyway, they’re willing.


90 posted on 04/22/2010 5:49:58 PM PDT by JohnQ1 ("I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow)
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