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The GOP's plan to fund DHS just failed. Now what?
Vox ^ | Fed 3rd, 2015 | Dara Lind

Posted on 02/03/2015 12:51:31 PM PST by Mariner

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To: The Cajun

There are 100 Senate Seats, 54 are Republican, and 2 are Independent, so that means there are 44 Dems. There must be 60 votes for a bill to pass, and 67 for it to be veto proof majority. Once the “NO” (Dems) hit 41, there was no way for it to pass, as it needed sixty votes. Therefore the BILL WAS BLOCKED.

When a Senator votes they call out how they voted and their last name. That way people know who voted how. C SPAN and other government channels show the process/vote.


41 posted on 02/03/2015 2:01:07 PM PST by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat
Is Reid's *nuclear option* still in effect or not?
42 posted on 02/03/2015 2:03:31 PM PST by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: eCSMaster

“Make it RECONCILIATION”

Yes, are we missing something? Too logical? Too easy? Too work-able?

Or does McConnell need a way to let Obama win.


43 posted on 02/03/2015 2:12:24 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: sarge83
Tell me again all you FR Republican boot-lickers how your saviors are working out for you. Did you enjoy getting lied to and kicked in the nuts-—again.

Preach it! +1

44 posted on 02/03/2015 2:17:38 PM PST by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Mariner
>>"First the GOP ESTABLISHMENT must die. Everything else comes after that."
>
>Fixed it for you.

Really?
Didn't the GOP tell us quite clearly, just before the November election, that they were going to push amnesty?
Didn't the GOP show us, by passing the funding bill, that they have no intention of forcing smaller government?
Didn't the GOP show us, by their retention of Harry Ried John Boehner (sorry, I get confused)?
Didn't the GOP show us that they have no intention of ensuring the government plays by the rules by allowing the NSA a free pass on its domestic espionage?
Didn't the GOP show us that it has no intention, whatsoever, of financial accountability/responsibility by its financial actions and inactions over the last decade and a half?

In short, what we are seeing is not RINO, but the true face of the Republican party: McCain, Romney, Jeb Bush, and Boehner illustrate and typify the real Republican party
— they have no use for conservatives like you or I.

45 posted on 02/03/2015 2:25:04 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Sacajaweau; All
"The problem is where you need 2/3's of both houses"

Bull Shiite.

All it take is 50% +1 in the House to deny a POTUS money to do any and everything.

That is beyond dispute.

If the House does not appropriate the money, it cannot be spent AND NO OTHER BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT CAN PROMISE AN IOU FOR IT.

The GOP House can stop this anytime they wish.

46 posted on 02/03/2015 2:42:47 PM PST by Mariner (First the GOP must die. Everything else comes after that.)
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To: Mariner

Make my day, shut it down. No more TSA and since the border patrol have been told not to stop anybody who needs em?


47 posted on 02/03/2015 2:47:11 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: ifinnegan

Your question is spot on. That was my immediate thought also.


48 posted on 02/03/2015 3:03:54 PM PST by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: Mariner

So what if it gets “ shut down”? They are not protecting the homeland now, we’re being overrun, shut it down.


49 posted on 02/03/2015 3:21:52 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Mariner

unauthorized immigrants

(((

No, those are illegal aliens.


50 posted on 02/03/2015 4:02:37 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Mariner

Nice spin, but the attempt didn’t fail - it was sabotaged by the ‘rats - now there should be a big press conference by the Republicans who have the microphone in congress to drive the point home.....


51 posted on 02/03/2015 9:11:54 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: The Cajun

?? I don’t know. It looks like Reid got the ‘nuclear option’...


52 posted on 02/04/2015 7:56:43 AM PST by Kackikat
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