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1 posted on 11/20/2014 2:22:46 AM PST by Gorilla44
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To: Gorilla44

What is good for the Goose is good for the Gander.

Harry has only himself to blame. He turned the republican senators into legislative unices and Dems deserve the same and then some.


2 posted on 11/20/2014 2:27:52 AM PST by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Gorilla44

McConnell said he would change the rule to apply to legislation as well, not just nominations.

Guess he lied.


3 posted on 11/20/2014 2:28:27 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: Gorilla44
This GOP Senate is going to be more confrontational then any other.

Reid, with his bully boy tactics, has poisoned the well and the Republicans aren't going to forget it!

Senators take great pride in their position and Reid humiliated them.

4 posted on 11/20/2014 2:36:35 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Gorilla44

It’s time to get even, Harry.


5 posted on 11/20/2014 2:41:04 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Gorilla44

Reid will just change the rules back before he is gone in January.
Why does everyone think the Repubs will be able to use this rule next year?


6 posted on 11/20/2014 2:43:25 AM PST by CapnJack
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To: Gorilla44

This is a no-brainer. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.


7 posted on 11/20/2014 2:49:28 AM PST by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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To: Gorilla44
I'm not so sure that this is to our advantage.

As I understand it, the nuclear option applies only to ending filibusters against nominees, it does not apply to legislation in general. The Democrats are disciplined and united, probably because of oligarchical control of their monies, far more than are Republicans who are at this juncture in the midst of a civil war between the base and the elitists, between conservatives and Rinos.

Republicans are prone, as history has shown respecting approving Democrat nominees, to divide against themselves and slavishly approved Democrat nominees. With the likes of Lindsay Graham, John McCain, the women from Maine, New Hampshire, and Alaska, there is a core of traitors.

So the danger is that a Democrat president can cobble together enough Rino Republicans to join with his Democrat minority to get approval. But as Ted Cruz pursues his plan to stop all nondefense related nominees by Obama so long as Obama pushes his tyrannical amnesty plan, it would be in our interest as conservatives for his opposition, manifested if necessary as a filibuster, to be unbreakable.

Legislation in general, however, is a different matter.


8 posted on 11/20/2014 2:51:17 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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And the VERY FIRST confirmation on which it should be used is Holder’s new replacement. Squash her nomination like a stinkbug. DOJ doesn’t need another rabid racist.


9 posted on 11/20/2014 2:52:05 AM PST by Gaffer
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I can just relish in the idea of hearing dirty harry squeal.


11 posted on 11/20/2014 3:00:45 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Gorilla44

How does this help? It means Dems only have to pick off fewer Republicans to get Obama’s idiots a vote.

Am I missing something?


18 posted on 11/20/2014 3:16:23 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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McConnell says he is concerned that the Democrats would vote for the nuclear option should they win back the majority. However, the Senate can modify the rule such that it would now take 60 votes to re-etablish the nuclear option. The flaw originally was that it only took a simple majority vote of 51 to change the 60 vote rule.
I think McConnell also thinks the voters are stupid.


19 posted on 11/20/2014 3:20:15 AM PST by orinoco (Orinoco)
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To: Gorilla44

The Republicans should stop referring to it as the “nuclear option” and consistently refer to it as the “Harry Reid Rule”.

Any time a reporter uses the first term, they should stop and correct him/her.


21 posted on 11/20/2014 3:34:10 AM PST by Johnny B.
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Orrin hatch, the most establishment of a establishment Republicans, said at last weeks Federalist Society convention that he wants to keep the nuclear option. that says to me it’s a done deal


23 posted on 11/20/2014 4:10:59 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Gorilla44

Or will McConnell foreswear it in the name of fairness?


27 posted on 11/20/2014 5:05:51 AM PST by arthurus
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To: Gorilla44

I am pretty sure that, by 2015, the nuclear option will be gone or nullified by some sort of “power sharing” agreement. That is just the way Senate ‘Pubbies are...


30 posted on 11/20/2014 5:23:40 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Gorilla44

Two words: hoist, pitard


32 posted on 11/20/2014 5:25:36 AM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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end the filibuster completely!

then send Obama bill after bill after bill for him to veto!

make it obvious to the American people that if they elect a Republican president in 2016 these bills will get signed!

37 posted on 11/20/2014 5:36:53 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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