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McConnell all but rules out filibuster change
thehill.com ^ | 1/27/17 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 01/27/2017 1:30:08 PM PST by ColdOne

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday all but ruled out the possibility of a change to the filibuster rule this year.

McConnell made his comment in an interview with The Hill one day after President Trump said he wants Senate Republicans to strip Democrats of the power to filibuster Supreme Court nominees if they attempt to block his pick.

“Senate rules are a matter for the Senate and a lot of other people have opinions,” McConnell said.

“We’ve already adopted the rules for this Congress at the beginning of the year. Basically we didn’t adopt any because in the Senate rules are permanent, unlike the House which every two year adopts a new set of rules. We don’t.”

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1 posted on 01/27/2017 1:30:08 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne
All But...

Be a man take a stand

2 posted on 01/27/2017 1:32:02 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ColdOne

What a worthless, spinless hack.


3 posted on 01/27/2017 1:32:38 PM PST by kosciusko51
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To: ColdOne

There is no reason to continue with the charade that either McConnell or the GOPe senators who repeatedly make him their leader are on our side.


4 posted on 01/27/2017 1:35:42 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: ColdOne

I think its time this bastard was yanked out of office.
The same people who put Trump in the White House, can and will remove this clown. He needs to be impeached - NOW.


5 posted on 01/27/2017 1:38:35 PM PST by ZULU (Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
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To: ColdOne

If McConnell stick to this position, we will not get a conservative SC nominee through during the next four years. McConnell is a dean of the old uniparty club and it shows in the slow pace of Cabinet nominee votes.


6 posted on 01/27/2017 1:39:23 PM PST by Truth29
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To: ColdOne
because in the Senate rules are permanent

Ol' Harry didn't agree with that statement... Senate rules seemed pretty flexible when he was in charge.

7 posted on 01/27/2017 1:39:29 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: ColdOne
I told you Kentucky Freepers that McConnell was a back-stabbing bastard and that we would be better off if you got rid of him.

He is already trying to undermine the President by sharing power unnecessarily with the Democrat Obstructionists. When Harry Reid was in charge of the Senate, he tossed out the filibuster rule immediately.

Making our side conform to it when the other side didn't is at best stupid, and at worse traitorous. McConnell needs to go.

8 posted on 01/27/2017 1:42:07 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: 9YearLurker

There is no reason to continue with the charade that either McConnell or the GOPe senators who repeatedly make him their leader are on our side.
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Agree, I’ve been saying it for a long time.

Alison Grimes was the lesser evil.


9 posted on 01/27/2017 1:43:00 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

A phone call from the new sheriff in town may be in order.


10 posted on 01/27/2017 1:44:32 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: 9YearLurker

Yep. I was actually surprised he didn’t cave on obama scotus pick...i bet he knew he could do this.


11 posted on 01/27/2017 1:48:03 PM PST by ColdOne (( I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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To: huckfillary

The new sheriff already put the turd’s wife in his cabinet—and is getting this back.


12 posted on 01/27/2017 1:48:56 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: huckfillary

The new sheriff already put the turd’s wife in his cabinet—and is getting this back.


13 posted on 01/27/2017 1:49:00 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: DiogenesLamp
You misunderstand, perhaps. The Dems did away with the filibuster for all presidential nominees with the exception of the Supreme Court.

Those are the rules the current Senate is observing. Nothing has changed.

Give it time. Let the Senate receive some public pressure. Last I read, sometime in December, that if the vote came to the floor of the Senate, there were 8 republicans that would vote to not change the filibuster. It is more than just McConnell.

14 posted on 01/27/2017 1:49:02 PM PST by Dave W
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To: ColdOne

Hey Mitch, I heard Harry “Pinky” Reed’s not using his balls right now. Maybe you can borrow them for a while...


15 posted on 01/27/2017 1:49:05 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: kosciusko51

Time to start ordering plastic Truck Nutz from Amazon and having them delivered to McConnell’s Office with a note telling him to “Strap’em on Mitch”.


16 posted on 01/27/2017 1:50:49 PM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: huckfillary

Well what was that cabinet position for his wife worth? If he screws up a SC nominee, then get rid of her in the cabinet.


17 posted on 01/27/2017 1:50:51 PM PST by Digger
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To: ColdOne

This guarantees 100% that the democrats will close ranks and block whoever Trump picks. Any attempt to shame them on delaying the nomination will be met with the reply of how long the Republicans blocked Garland’s nomination. The democrats would end this stupid rule the minute they get a majority in the Senate.

Just do it and be done with it.


18 posted on 01/27/2017 1:52:02 PM PST by henkster
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To: ColdOne
Kentucky, you're MUCH better than this !
19 posted on 01/27/2017 1:52:30 PM PST by tomkat
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To: 9YearLurker
The new sheriff already put the turd’s wife in his cabinet—and is getting this back.

Another way to look at it is that the new sheriff has a hostage. Let's stay tuned.

20 posted on 01/27/2017 1:52:37 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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