Posted on 12/29/2010 1:13:21 PM PST by La Lydia
They get the Friday 31 off, not Monday.
Thanks, I fixed my mistake earlier.
What does that have to do with it? All I said was that the Senate, without the House, confirms judge and ratifies treaties. You are right appointments aren’t filibustered; they have holds placed on them. Those holds are used as bargaining chips on other matters. Under the new rules they will be able to do even more mischief.
Look, grasshopper. The FR surrender monkey doom and gloom parade is unusually long tonight.
I know that, and you know that, but...frogjerk was confused.
“Appointments are never filibustered “
Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, Charles W. Pickering, Carolyn Kuhl, David W. McKeague, Henry Saad, Richard Allen Griffin, William H. Pryor, William Gerry Myers III, Janice Rogers Brown...
I’m amazed at what the media can accomplish in a very short time!
Usually just the threat of a filibuster works, but sometimes the Senate plays it’s hand out.
Clearly time for the 7.69 cure with a judicious application of the ground-temperature prophylactic...
I agree, this must be what that dirty rat bast*rd Reid is up to. Otherwise why would he do anything that would appear to lessen the minority power when their progressive train wreck is about to become the minority party.
They proclaimed, in 2006, after running a campaign based on homophobia against 2 closeted Republican homosexuals, that there was a “culture of corruption” that rose to the top ranks of the GOP (even though it was proven in one of those instances, that the US media AND the DNC knew more, earlier, and chose to do “nothing” to protect the aides, rather admitting that they would sit on it to capitalize on it during the October campaign season).
Reid and Pelosi claimed they were going to have the most ethical congress ever. How did that s&it work out?
Ok, if you say so, like, whatever.
Guess I don’t understand the complexities of a Lame Duck or rather what could be called the Limp D*ck Session as far as the upcoming majority party is concerned.
Do you ever recall such a session where bills not brought forward during the pre election regular session were tabled and passed with dozens of incumbents voting who would not be part of the next congress.
Why not a simple sentence to ReidPelosiObama -
The American people have refudiated your agenda, and your party and candidates, and hence, we will not allow any legislation to move forward until the representatives of the people have been seated during the next Congress.
Thank You, and Have a Merry Christmas.
—OK, two sentences.
Happy New Year to Harry Reid in Hell.
PING!
Nope - with their 51+ votes, right before they lose power, they change it back to 60 for cloture
[Mr] T
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