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Bernie Sanders vows to use speaking filibuster to prevent tax vote
Twitter ^ | 12/10/2010 | Bernie Sanders

Posted on 12/10/2010 10:56:25 AM PST by rumrunner

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VM) is using a true speaking filibuster to prevent vote that stops a tax raise.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; sanders; sandersforpres; taxes; vermont
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To: MplsSteve
IIRC, as long as a Senator is speaking and refuses to yield, there’s no need to hold a vote to sustain the veto - right? The Senator in question could speak on and on.

No, otherwise a single member could filibuster. There has to be a procedure to shut one down if a supermajority of some size will agree to do so. The current procedure requires 60 votes.

161 posted on 12/11/2010 9:52:04 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: pillut48
I am so tempted to post a Live Thread for Bernie's Filibuster (isn't that a great name for a rock band?)...

Sounds like a prostate condition.

162 posted on 12/11/2010 9:55:32 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: pillut48
“We are actually forcing tax breaks on people who don’t need them and don’t want them!”—Bernie Sanders

No you're not. Any of those people who want to can always pay extra. There's no law against that.

163 posted on 12/11/2010 10:05:16 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: screaminsunshine; Publius; Billthedrill
We oughta get a Republican to get up and read Atlas Shrugged.

Good God, man! You could filibuster the entire remainder of the Obama administration!

164 posted on 12/11/2010 10:15:05 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: rumrunner

A filibuster to raise the marginal tax rates. This is beyond crazy.


165 posted on 12/11/2010 10:43:41 AM PST by americanophile
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To: Still Thinking

We could hook him up with a meth IV.


166 posted on 12/11/2010 12:01:54 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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To: screaminsunshine

I like it!


167 posted on 12/11/2010 3:53:14 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: rumrunner

I hope he does it and I hope the rats support him. He’d be doing it for opposite reasons than I want, but at least SOMEBODY would screw up the deal, much to my relief.


168 posted on 12/12/2010 1:33:43 AM PST by ratsreek
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To: MissesBush

Huh? I don’t want Bernie to kick off until this whole deal is done. Right now, he’s about all that’s standing between us and the utter lunacy of this deal. Yeah, yeah, I know. Sanders is against it for different reasons than we are, but that doesn’t matter at the moment. Just stop the damn train!!!


169 posted on 12/12/2010 1:38:37 AM PST by ratsreek
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To: AU72

Set up a Starbuck’s in the well of the senate if need be.


170 posted on 12/12/2010 1:40:02 AM PST by ratsreek
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To: heiss

Sadly, I think Bernie, oscumbag, all of them, intend to “cave” to the Repubs, even though this is a better deal for them than it is for us.

Then they can play it to their base that we forced this, and anything that goes sour because of it, like a worsening economy and higher unemployment, can be blamed on us.

They don’t care about the country. We all know that. All they want is power and money.

But, until the Repubs maybe wake up, i want Bernie to keep talking.


171 posted on 12/12/2010 1:46:14 AM PST by ratsreek
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To: Sola Veritas
I can’t decide which DemocRATS love more, abortions or taxes

Taxes paying for abortions!

172 posted on 12/12/2010 1:40:58 PM PST by reg45
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To: animal172

You need a bumper sticker that says “I love my {insert name of favorite brand of chain saw here}”.


173 posted on 12/12/2010 1:46:26 PM PST by reg45
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To: mowowie

Come to New Hampshire sometime and you’ll feel like you’re on a better planet!


174 posted on 12/12/2010 4:42:07 PM PST by MSF BU (YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
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To: MSF BU

New Hampshire is like a second home to me.


175 posted on 12/13/2010 1:43:06 AM PST by mowowie
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To: rumrunner
He vows to continue until he can't speak.

Feel free to speak, Bernie, until you either drop dead or the lame duck session of Congress ends.

176 posted on 12/13/2010 9:24:18 AM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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