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REPUBLICANS SAY THEY'D RESTORE FILIBUSTER IF IN POWER
Big Government ^ | May 25, 2014 | Kerry Pickett

Posted on 05/25/2014 8:56:52 PM PDT by Bratch

The Democrats’ majority in the Senate is on the line this election season, and if Republicans take back control, the GOP will need to decide on new rules for the new Congress in the upper chamber. Some Republican members are willing to go back to way things were before Harry Reid took the gavel.

In the wake of the recent controversial nomination of Judge David Barron, author of the memo which gave a legal basis to kill Americans abroad with drones, to the first U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Republicans became apoplectic after getting word that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threatened to change the filibuster rules on federal nominees again to make the process favor the majority further. Don Stewart, spokesman for Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, told Breitbart News on Wednesday that McConnell has already made it clear that, should the Republicans take back the Senate, decisions on rules will be made among conference members.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: filibuster; nuclearoption; senate; traditionalists
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1 posted on 05/25/2014 8:56:52 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

ACT LIKE WINNERS.

Atomic melvins, noogies, swirlies in the locker room, screw their girlfriends, SCREW THEM.

Enough of this, “We’ll be GOOD winners, crap”, they UNDERSTAND bullying.


2 posted on 05/25/2014 9:00:47 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Bratch
hey idiots....fight fire with fire....nice guys finish last....why don't you just all hold hands and sing kumbaya, you idiots...

if elected, we expect YOU to fight tooth and bone and if that means using democrat tricks, then by God, use them....

3 posted on 05/25/2014 9:00:51 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Bratch

When Republicans regain the majority in the Senate, I’m all for reverting to the pre-Hairy protocols BUT ONLY AFTER cleaning up some of the Shiite that the Dims have foisted on the country. AND WITH THE SIMPLE MAJORITY THE RULE, improve other protocols.

Set a target of January 1, 2018 as a good day to revert to the pre-Hairy protocols, but only a target.


4 posted on 05/25/2014 9:02:34 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Bratch

Not surprising because most of them really are demorats.


5 posted on 05/25/2014 9:03:40 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Rembrandt

Pubbies SHOULD NOT change a thing make them LIVE with what they
voted for PERIOD!!!!!!


6 posted on 05/25/2014 9:04:23 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Bratch

They are making one hell of an assumption that they will get control of the senate..

With the crap they are currently pulling and their history of grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory..

I bet they can’t pull off even 50 seats total.


7 posted on 05/25/2014 9:05:37 PM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: Bratch; All
Nothing Shall Happen.
(Doormat GOP/e shall remain Doormats)
which means; the (little/fly-over) people lose..
Establishment/Federal bureaucracy wins.

8 posted on 05/25/2014 9:06:22 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: Bratch

Jeez....Let’s see, Rand Paul, Juan McCain and Little Lindsey Graham. The three of them should jointly be known by the name “Pussy Galore”.

They’re ALWAYS ready to carry the DemocRATS’ water for them.


9 posted on 05/25/2014 9:06:28 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

It’s like professional wrestling....sometimes the good guys pretend to be bad guys, and vice-versa. It’s all scripted, and only the lobbyists know who will be the actual winner at the conclusion of each match. And MSNBC and Fox News serve as “Mean Gene” the announcer...keeping you focused and all upset.


10 posted on 05/25/2014 9:07:50 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: cherry

In 2010, we gave the Republicans:

* control of the US House of Representatives,

* dozens of new Representatives in the House with fire-in-the-belly,

* AND ALL THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS DID WAS TO BECOME CHRONIC DOORMATS TO DEMOCRATS!


11 posted on 05/25/2014 9:08:09 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: cherry
Amen! Fire with fire! So the D's changed to the dirty rules The R's change them back, then what's to stop the Dems to do it again??

I dunno about the R party even WITH the TP in control of it.

So it appears to me that America has a choice between two political parties:

The corrupt, insane D's or the stupid, pu$$y R's.

That's not a choice. That's national suicide.

12 posted on 05/25/2014 9:08:35 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions, led by a deer.)
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To: Bratch

What a bunch of losers. We win, we lose, we lose, we lose. Fight by the enemy’s rules, oh no. We need to be nice so the media will like us and we can get invited to all the best cocktail parties.


13 posted on 05/25/2014 9:08:51 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: gaijin

‘Atomic melvins’? Is that the infamous ‘birth control wedgie’ or am I off in the weeds here?


14 posted on 05/25/2014 9:11:14 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Liberals - destroyers of both men and civilizations. The Fourth Turning Cometh.)
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To: All

I will believe it when I see it, and when the first filibuster actually occurs, you know, a “real” one...


15 posted on 05/25/2014 9:14:16 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Bratch
IDIOTS
16 posted on 05/25/2014 9:15:55 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: cherry
hey idiots....fight fire with fire....nice guys finish last....why don't you just all hold hands and sing kumbaya, you idiots... if elected, we expect YOU to fight tooth and bone and if that means using democrat tricks, then by God, use them....



What a bunch of losers - THE GOP SHOULD BE RUNNING ON A TICKET OF HUSSEIN/HOLDER IMPEACHMENT NOT HOW WE WILL BE FOGIVING OF THE RAT PARTY.

Won't be getting my vote.
17 posted on 05/25/2014 9:17:12 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Bratch

I’m sure it will get 100% Democrat support.


18 posted on 05/25/2014 9:17:42 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Bratch

Which is why they’ll never again drink from that cup.


19 posted on 05/25/2014 9:18:54 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Up yours NSA !)
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To: Bratch

20 posted on 05/25/2014 9:20:25 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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