Posted on 11/05/2014 7:54:16 AM PST by The Ignorant Fisherman
The lawsuits and the pleas to the public need to be Fast & Furious. “Amnesty” isnt an executive action, and we need to make 100% sure it doesn’t become one.
Keep punching this Rope a Dope
and now Hillary has something to run against , Those evil Republicans ,LOL
summary: prepare for a scorched earth lame duck
I really hope Obama pisses off the wrong guy...and that guy knows that it’s better to be pissed off than to be pissed on.
Well said.
It will be interesting to see what happens if he fails to accept the mandate handed to him last night.
Remember he's the one that said, "My policies are running".
“GET OFF OF MY PROPERTY!”
Who has the video of him kicking down the door??
Pen & phone, if GOP don’t work with him then racist, blah blah blah
He’s going out with guns blazing, no pivot except more extreme.
& I don’t trust or expect Mitchy or Boner to do anything about it.
"Great..... it's going to be like the Hell's Angels running the Country. A woman's place is going to be back in the corner as a quiet house mouse. In the meantime the men will overtly show a united front, whilst in the background all kinds of mayhem and backstabbing will break out. All the while they'll try to make the walls to this elitist zoo even higher, lest some of those deemed below us should make their way in.
Hurgghhh."
Oh, their tears are sweet.
“I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking” - 0bama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifjRVLVjzA
Lol...did you post back...”Yeah, that’s why so many WOMEN were voted in, to historical first time seats, last night!”?
Lash out and destroy—That sword can cut both ways.
“But make no mistake, (my) policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.” - 0bama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkYnghIrQrA
The first item on the Republican Senate’s agenda should be to change the filibuster rules. After the orgy of lame duck appointments that we are all going to see Reid push through the Senate over the next two months it should be easy to argue that these rule changes are for the purpose of real filibuster reform.
1. Reinstate the filibuster for all judicial appointments. Lifetime judicial appointments are too important to be approved by only 50 Senators and the Vice President.
Leave executive branch appointments as they are. They will all be gone when the next president is elected and if any Republican Senators break ranks to approve far left wing Obama executive appointments then we can target them in the next primaries. Besides, Obama is going to fill every important executive vacancy with far left wing appointments during the lame duck session.
This is a page from Reid’s playbook. Only change the filibuster rules that you care about. Reid did not abolish filibusters for Supreme Court nominations. Why not? Because there were no Supreme Court vacancies. I guarantee if a Supreme Court seat came open and Republicans made any attempt to filibuster Obama’s far left wing replacement then Reid would have then unilaterally abolished the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations as well.
2. Abolish the legislative filibuster or at the very least require a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” talk-until-you-drop style filibuster for legislation.
The Republican controlled Senate can then pass all of the legislation that has already passed the Republican controlled House that Reid would never allow to even come to the floor for a vote. Sure Obama will veto everything and it will be unlikely that enough Democrat Senators will break ranks to override his veto, but Obama can spend the next two years obstructing progress.
No. 1 is a no brainer. If the Republicans fail to do this then they are insane. Obama’s far left wing judicial appointments will be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years. 40 Senators should have the power to to block any one of them.
No. 2 should also be a no brainer, but it is doubtful that McConnell will have the balls. The only argument against it is that it will be used against the Republicans whenever the Democrats regain control of the Senate someday. That is a stupid, bullsh!t argument.
That was the same argument used to stop the Republican controlled Senate from using the so-called “nuclear option” when the Democrats were filibustering all of Bush’s judicial appointments. So the Republicans caved. Guess what? Reid did not hesitate to do it when it suited the Democrat controlled Senate.
The Democrats will do whatever they want to do when they regain control of the Senate. It does not matter what the Republicans do or do not do to the Democrats.
So take a page from Reid’s playbook and use raw political power to halt the Democrats and stop caring what sort of precedent it will set.
Make that spear a golf club.
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