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Democrats gear up to overhaul the Senate filibuster for major bills if they win in 2024
NBC News ^ | MAY 17, 2024 | NBC News

Posted on 11/06/2024 7:10:30 AM PST by anonsquared

Sens. Manchin and Sinema are retiring. The remaining Democrats — and candidates running to hold the majority — favor overhauling the rule that requires 60 votes to pass most bills.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrat; hypocrisy
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This is what they have been wanting for years.

This is what they ran on and promised their voters.

Bring it to the floor and force them to vote on it now.

Make them show their hypocrisy and have it be on record.

1 posted on 11/06/2024 7:10:30 AM PST by anonsquared
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To: anonsquared

If the win. Now that they’ve lost the Senate, they are going to embrace the filibuster like Biden does with small girls.


2 posted on 11/06/2024 7:11:49 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: anonsquared

Lol Great !. Thanks for reminding us.


3 posted on 11/06/2024 7:12:08 AM PST by RWGinger (FJB)
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To: anonsquared

Filibuster? What’s that? I thought it was racist or something to keep the filibuster. :)


4 posted on 11/06/2024 7:14:21 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: anonsquared

Oopsie, another fever dream smashed


5 posted on 11/06/2024 7:14:29 AM PST by databoss
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To: databoss

So much for that ..


6 posted on 11/06/2024 7:15:43 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: anonsquared
“Bring it to the floor and force them to vote on it now.”

This.

Don't just make dems vote on it; make them take the floor and give speeches defending the filibuster.

7 posted on 11/06/2024 7:15:49 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: anonsquared

I’m guessing stacking the SCOTUS is out of the question too?


8 posted on 11/06/2024 7:15:54 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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November 6, 2024: Democrat Senate caucus goes into emergency closed session to plot strategy for defending the filibuster against fascist overthrow of sacred tradition.

Remember Linda Blair's head spinning around in The Exorcist? That's the democrat party today.

9 posted on 11/06/2024 7:16:11 AM PST by sphinx
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To: CatOwner

Well said.


10 posted on 11/06/2024 7:16:56 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: CatOwner

I think it would be a great play for the Rs to say they are going to stack it now.

Maybe make it 99 Supreme Court Justices!

And that we will nominate them all!


11 posted on 11/06/2024 7:19:35 AM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: UnwashedPeasant

It was antidemocratic.


12 posted on 11/06/2024 7:20:25 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: anonsquared

Election Integrity should be HR1 of the new congress.

No RCV

No mail in ballots

No “motor voter”

Voter rolls purged every four years

No same day registration

National Voter ID to prevent double voting

Limit early voting to two weeks

No absentee voting needed with early voting

Exempt expatriates from US taxes but No overseas voting except military and DOS personnel

Make each item a separate bill so they must be challenged individually.


13 posted on 11/06/2024 7:21:30 AM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and pervewrts.)
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The other day I read that some of the Democrat talking heads were already blaming California if Harris were to lose. They said if CA politicians hadn’t made it so miserable to live there, conservatives would not have moved from a state where their votes did not count to states where their votes do count.

So what do the CA city folks up and do? They are sending Adam Schiff to the Senate. In January 2025, bring up the filibuster and make him vote on it. Have it on record for posterity.


14 posted on 11/06/2024 7:21:32 AM PST by anonsquared
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In the spirit of bipartisanship The next congress should adopt the democrats’ ideas of eliminating the filibuster and expanding the SCOTUS. To save democracy, of course!


15 posted on 11/06/2024 7:22:01 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: jeffersondem

Absolutely!


16 posted on 11/06/2024 7:22:09 AM PST by anonsquared
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To: CatOwner

Oh joy, forgot about that one!


17 posted on 11/06/2024 7:22:57 AM PST by anonsquared
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I think Trump should announce that he is implementing the Democrat agenda. 51+ for no filibuster? Perfect! Expand the Supreme Court? Great, add four seats and lock it down. Prosecute Trump? Awesome. Prosecute the entire Biden administration and Deep State insurrectionists starting at DoJ. Also, pardon all J6 hostages and allow them to sue each member of the J6 committee for civil rights violations.

If Republicans hold the house, no one in the Democrat party or Deep State should feel safe.


18 posted on 11/06/2024 7:25:03 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I'm Pro-Choice and I choose life!)
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To: anonsquared

It’s time for Clarence Thomas to retire


19 posted on 11/06/2024 7:27:02 AM PST by 11th_VA (The “Joy” is palpable !!!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

All that should just be for starters. Get Elon in there to fire 75% of all Federal government workers. Then cut the pay and benefits of all the ones that are left.


20 posted on 11/06/2024 7:28:42 AM PST by anonsquared
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