Senate leaders reach agreement on filibusters (chance to offer amendments if GOP shuts up)

Yahoo ^ | 1/27/11 | Jim Abrams - ap

[upchuck]

that minority Republicans would filibuster fewer bills - McConnell CAVES

to end the practice of one senator being able to secretly block votes - McConnell CAVES

rules change that would slash by a third the number of presidential appointments that need Senate approval - McConnell CAVES

Disgusting wimpy puke!

[upchuck]

Ping.

[paulycy]

Thanks for explaining your position again. You were right, I missed it the first time.

[BobL]

It sounds like we gave the Dems a graceful exit from their plan. They know all too well that the Senate will flip in 2012 and the last thing they want are rules that favor the majority.

[stylin19a]

"Republicans would filibuster fewer bills and nominations in exchange for a promise y the Democratic majority to give them more chances to offer amendments."

for a promise and a chance....the stupid party strikes again.

[Grn_Lantern]

The article says nothing about that.

[glock rocks]

I'll do my part and vote Hatch out, and the tea party in.

GOP</ForrestGump>

[unixfox]

Yep, elections have consequences.

[Happy Rain]

The Senate just voted to keep the filibuster rules unchanged.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Good grief!

These old senile buttholes need to go out to pasture.
They’re braindead!

[luvie]

Read my lips...and tagline....Rs!

NO COMPROMISE!

It just never works to our advantage to agree to something with
the Democrats. NEVER!

[GeronL]

GOP surrenders AGAIN

[itsahoot]

Peep, Peep, Peep,Peep

[Emile]

No, it doesn't. But you know as well as I that the Dems, aided by the media, will use this agreement to browbeat the Repubs into withholding filibusters, even on the most important things. And, as they have in the past, they'll go along just to be nice.

Only one of many reasons why it's ultimately counterproductive and suicidal to make deals with Democrats. ANY deals.

[NormsRevenge]

Time for Term Limits? 2 in the Senate 4 in the House? 1 in the WH?

Shouldn’t the people see new faces every decade or so.. nothing like new blood, besides I’m not sure how in touch Senators are these days with the plights of the masses.

[NormsRevenge]

Can ya whistle a few notes? I'll catch up.

I thought he played banjo. He must be multi-musically talented.

[hal ogen]

These feckless RINOs are troglodytes. Always caving!

[NormsRevenge]

Hatch (on the far right) and Specter were Koop's main supporters during his contentious confirmation process. He was confirmed as U.S. Surgeon General on November 16, 1981.

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Wow. Nice doo. Larry Curly and Mo. lol

btw I don't even remember 1981.. I was still single then. :-}

[HKMk23]

I posted this the other day, and I’ll repeat it as often as I feel necessary:

Conservatives and Republicans had best recognize that the next election will either be an all-out BIG GAME hunt on OUR side of the ballot, or it will be a wholesale surrender to the left.

How long will we waver between two opinions?? If The Constitution is important then STAND AND DEFEND IT WITH YOUR VOTE!! If not; then go re-register as a damned Democrat and get it the Hell over with!!

In 2012, and beyond, either go all in, or get the Hell out.

THOSE are your TWO choices; there are ONLY those two choices, and for the sake of all you hold dear, you had better disabuse yourself NOW of the fatal idea that a third way exists.

This nation can no longer endure an electorate that indulges itself in the failed notion that there is some la-dee-da “common ground” where we can all stand shoulder-to-shoulder under a starry sky with candles held aloft singing Kum-ba-ya. THAT land exists ONLY in leftist propaganda posters worthy of Mao’s China, the Third Reich, and the old Soviet Union.

There is hot; there is cold, and between the two is a NO-MAN’S LAND.

There is Right and there is Wrong, and between the two there is a NO-MAN’S LAND inhabited only by RINOs and carrion beasts.

So, then, let us ENSURE that, in wake of the upcoming elections, the RINOs remain ONLY as fodder for the carrion beasts.

Let us get shet of them once and for all!

NO MERCY.

NO GRACE.

NO QUARTER.

EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE! ACT LIKE IT!

[TribalPrincess2U]

Not only are they not in touch with the grassroots. They live altogether different lives.

All the political offices get way too many benefits for starters.