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To: pgkdan
America has been destroyed a long time ago with things like the 60 vote in the Senate. Stop and think. Nothing, for many years, has come out of Congress to keep America free and safe. All that has been done is fill the pockets of politicians, both Democrats and Republicans. The 60 vote must be changes to 51 or you can expect a communists government replacing our Constitution. It is almost there now. Think about it!
58 posted on 03/10/2017 8:34:59 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Logical me
Ryan's RINO's excuse is that they can't put much into this bill because the Byrd rule won't let much go through with 50 votes under reconciliation and no one expects them to get 60 votes until after midterms. He certainly doesn't want us to think Ryan's RINO's can't get 50 votes on much in the Senate because too many want to be on the other side of the aisle... So they say putting more into the reconciliation will be stopped by the parliamentarian and can only be overruled by the 60 votes they lack. Meanwhile Cruz says he's found, in the law creating reconciliation, that the parliamentarian doesn't rule on the limits, the Chair (Pence at need) does, and it takes 60 Rat votes to overrule him. So if the GOP can find the guts to have Pence endorse adding whatever to their bill under reconciliation they only need 41 votes to sustain him! If we can't whip 41 votes for what 52 allegedly GOP Senators claimed was a top priority we're in worse shape than I'd realized.

I don't know if Cruz is correct, but it's in character for Cruz, in "look at me, I'm the smartest kid in the class" mode to discover something like this and be correct. The unusual behavior, for Cruz, is that here he seems to be working with Trump and Pence to try to fix the bill, rather than being the lead obstructionist.


59 posted on 03/10/2017 9:29:59 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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