LIVE THREAD: SENATE FILIBUSTER!! Call Capitol Swtchbrd 1-800-648-3516 to Protest Dem Obstructionism

www.freerepublic.com | November 12, 2003

[Howlin]

FILIBUSTER BEGINS AT 6:00 P.M. EST!!!!

[mhking]

As if anyone expected them to?

[Cboldt]

To change the rules, i.e., to execute the "nuclear option" that will make closure = 51 votes, all the pubbies need is the majority of the votes present.

Quite a few GOP Senators would not support the nuclear option. Santorum said there were 12. Given all the time that has already transpired (not this debate, but the months and months of obstruction), a more delicate time to make the change is at the start of the next Congressional Session. I'm as impatient as the next guy, but waiting might be the most productive course of action, to advance conservatism over liberalism.

[RobFromGa]

Frist should say "Ok, we'll go another 39 hours and vote again, and we'll do it through Thanksgiving if we have to." If it is exposure we want, keep the pressure on...

[BCrago66]

It was set in March. Now we're just beginning to fight back.

[Howlin]

Here is a list of those who participated:

http://c-span.org/congress/debate.asp

[OXENinFLA]

OH that is SWEET!!!!!

They even broke it up by the hour.

[cschroe]

Results oriented politics (winning elections) is what got us in this mess.

We're winning elections because our positions reflect the "right thing" far more often than that of the loyal opposition.

[BCrago66]

I thought there were 3 or 4 RINO againt the nuclear option.
12 is just depressing.

[Dianna]

Frist should say "Ok, we'll go another 39 hours and vote again, and we'll do it through Thanksgiving if we have to." If it is exposure we want, keep the pressure on...

Yeah, but what about our wobblies? Can't make them mad either or they won't vote for cloture.

[Howlin]

Gee, thanks. My Spybot just went off like a emergency horn from all the cookies!

[Mo1]

As if anyone expected them to?

No .. but the Dems have been seen for what they really are

And that rant of Mary's took the cake .. UNBELIEVABLE

I can't wait for the debate at my mother's when we have Thanksgiving Dinner

[carlo3b]

Did you hear him while he was turning down the volume on his TV

Yeah.. I heard that poor chicken squawk, didn't you hear the chicken protesting in the background.. LOLOLOL

[rs79bm]

Doesn't look like this exercise got much play with the national media. My local paper did a number on this as well--- zero.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Has anyone figured out who the 12 men out area yet? Perhaps theyneed some freeping , huh?

[DeuceTraveler]

Like this?

GO NUCLEAR BABY!

http://www.zvis.com/images/nuks/dyeso1.jpg

[Howlin]

Yes, if only we could remember when they spoke.........LOL.

[Howlin]

I would like to see the names of those 12, if there are that many.

[tractorman]

Maybe C-Span should conduct a poll to see who was the “master debater”.

[BCrago66]

I know one of them is that blowhard Specter, because he likes to posture as above the fray.

[fml]

--wobblies?--

Ya know weebles wooble but they don't fall down.