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Reid's ‘nuclear option’ changes rules, ends repeat filibusters
The Hill ^ | October 6, 2011 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 10/06/2011 4:42:43 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: Crawdad

Thanks...I don’t understand it but if DeMint says it I believe it.


61 posted on 10/06/2011 5:22:54 PM PDT by jazusamo (The real minimum wage is zero: Thomas Sowell)
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To: VinceASA

Yeah, but how much damage can the Rats do in the mean time?


62 posted on 10/06/2011 5:25:16 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: jazusamo

[I believe you’re correct. The Rats better understand what goes around comes around.]

lol. Are we thinking of the same GOP. I seem to remember to us agreeing to “power sharing” last time we took control of the Senate. Or maybe I’m mistaken?


63 posted on 10/06/2011 5:25:48 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: traditional1
That's fine...now the House just needs to amend its rules to prohibit funding ANY Government Agency not specifically provided for by the U.S. Constitution,

They can do that anytime they want. And have had the power since they were formed.

But they don't. Do they?

They don't want to stop spending. Either party.

A pox on all of them.

But I'll give your idea a hearty "AMEN!". I would pray that our Congress assembled would do something like that.

And then I look at them.

Clements had it right. Congress is America's only native criminal class.

/johnny

64 posted on 10/06/2011 5:26:24 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: CedarDave

Burrs a POS!!!


65 posted on 10/06/2011 5:26:28 PM PDT by JessieHelmsJr (Tree hugging liberals call it global warming. We call it summertime.)
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To: jazusamo
I knew Reid was dumb but not this dumb. The House doesn't even need to take up any Senate Bills and then when The GOP takes over the Senate they will just use Reid's Rule against him.
66 posted on 10/06/2011 5:27:08 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obama, The Biggest Thief In American History)
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To: jazusamo
Smells like deception to me...

I think we need to give Dirty Harry a bit more credit here...I believe Reid knows he does not have the 50 votes and will leave Obama hanging in the breeze...with this albatross of a jobs bill dragging him down....

Reid knows he has lost the senate majority leadership in 2012 and can lay the blame at Obama feet and Reid must be pissed .

67 posted on 10/06/2011 5:29:18 PM PDT by Popman (Obama is God's curse upon the land....)
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To: CedarDave

Cochran is MS. Isakson is GA.


68 posted on 10/06/2011 5:29:51 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: JRandomFreeper
"If you add all their IQ's together, you might reach room temperature."

Nope! It will be a negative number.

69 posted on 10/06/2011 5:30:34 PM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: KansasGirl

:-)

No, you’re not mistaken. Maybe something like this is what it will take, then again maybe they’re too far gone.


70 posted on 10/06/2011 5:31:26 PM PDT by jazusamo (The real minimum wage is zero: Thomas Sowell)
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To: CedarDave

Corrections: Brown (MA), Burr (NC), Chambliss (GA) Cochran (MS), Collins (ME), Graham (SC), Isakson (GA), Portman (OH), Sessions (AL), Shelby (AL), Snow (ME)


71 posted on 10/06/2011 5:32:19 PM PDT by CedarDave (Sarah's out; need a new tagline...)
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To: jazusamo

A later thought. The dem-o-rats can change the rule right back next week, right?


72 posted on 10/06/2011 5:33:26 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: CedarDave

Mark just added another Pub: Hoeven (ND)


73 posted on 10/06/2011 5:34:25 PM PDT by CedarDave (Sarah's out; need a new tagline...)
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To: grumpygresh
So we will only need 51 votes to kill obamacare in 2013?

That was already the case. Since Obamacare was passed as a budget reconciliation measure, it can be repealed as a budget reconciliation measure.

74 posted on 10/06/2011 5:34:41 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: CedarDave

I must be missing something. Why would a Republican vote for this? What was their reasoning?


75 posted on 10/06/2011 5:36:27 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: Popman

I hope you’re right and that Reid is pissed, he and Nance can sit next to one another starting in 2013.


76 posted on 10/06/2011 5:36:33 PM PDT by jazusamo (The real minimum wage is zero: Thomas Sowell)
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To: CedarDave

The communists are shooting their wad and America is watching Dancing with the Stars (OMG will Nancy Grace win after causing that mommy to commit suicide, in my opinion) . No one knows about this nuisance. This is a joke. 4 Million Christian Men went to Washington in 1996 to rally for Jesus. Who cared? Who cares now? All we want is our government check and our stuff. Move On!!


77 posted on 10/06/2011 5:39:07 PM PDT by PETENICK1
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To: jazusamo

Seems to me that the precedent is now set...so if President Cain can get 51 Republicans (or really couple more, to deal with RINOs) in 2013, we will OWN Congress.


78 posted on 10/06/2011 5:39:07 PM PDT by BobL (I want a Conservative for 2012, not Perry)
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To: jazusamo

That is a very stupid move by the socialists specially when they do not control the House.


79 posted on 10/06/2011 5:39:20 PM PDT by jgge
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To: dynachrome
A later thought. The dem-o-rats can change the rule right back next week, right?

I suppose so but if they tick off enough of the GOP and RINOs it could be bad for them come 2013.

80 posted on 10/06/2011 5:40:23 PM PDT by jazusamo (The real minimum wage is zero: Thomas Sowell)
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