Posted on 04/06/2017 6:19:30 PM PDT by kevcol
"I could not help but notice a number of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle high-fiving each other," Blumenthal said on the Senate floor. "That image stays with me as I stand here now. It saddens me."
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"There is no cause for celebration in what happened in the Senate just hours ago," he said. "No one should sleep well tonight. No one should underestimate the magnitude of what happened here. Damage was done to our democracy."
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The democraps whooped and hollered and high fived LAST MONTH when the obamacare repeal failed.
“Blumenthal is jealous. He only has 3 fingers and can’t do a high five. Moron!”
Coming from the ugliest MFer in the Senate. I’ve always wondered why his mother didn’t just leave him at the hospital.
Blumenthal is a blooming idiot.
My condolences to those of you in Connecticut.
Why all of the lament from the Dems. The only thing that happened was a return to the Constitution. Pious hand wringing is over a higher threshold than that established by the framers. Are they saying that they know better than the framers?
Damage was done to our democracy.
Good thing we are a Republic huh?
LOL!
He’s always relevant to people in CT though.
Love to see such wimpy weepy libtards upset. More winning!!
Suck it, Senator Bloomy!!
Hey DICK!
Embrace the suck!
Connecticut, you could do so much better. I am ashamed to say I lived there once but, happy to say I escaped.
This is the same Blumenthal that voted in favor when Reid nuked the filibuster for all judges below the SCOTUS. AND, I’m sure he would have voted for the nuclear option that Reid said he would use if Clinton won and the Repubs filibustered her SCOTUS nominations. Blumenthal is just another intellectually dishonest democrat.
There’s a rumor that when he was born, when the doctor delivered him and got a look at him, he slapped the mother.
The Democrats can thank then Senator Reid for the filibuster’s end. The Democrats showed that the rule is removable when it suits the Democrats. They can’t have it both ways i.e. Republicans have to follow the filibuster rule when it’s action they want and Democrats dispense with it when it’s action Democrats want. The filibuster lost it’s usefulness when it was replaced by the Faux Filibuster wherein Senators merely had to indicate they would nail their shoes to the floor for so long as it took to kill a bill. They had to actually work for it. The sensible alternatives now are to go back to the real filibuster or eliminate it altogether. The pro forma “filibuster” simply freezes the Senate. It is not brought out for really serious reasons but is proclaimed for all sorts of minor things.
“Damage was done to our democracy”
Except USA is a republic
Reid and the Democrats did the damage. Once the filibuster is set aside for some one thing it is finished. Why would Republicans agree to retain a tactic that can only be used against Republicans?
Democrats celebrate. Republicans traditionally would have mumbled and shuffled their feet.
Their cross to bear.
At least in this case old RINO Mitch had more gonads thqn RINO RYAN.
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