The United States would be a dictatorship now if the RATS had succeeded in ending the Filibuster.
Posted on 09/24/2024 7:23:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
She’ll just be furthering the demise of the USA with such a move.
The filibuster is a rule made up by the Senate...to protect senators when voting on the record in many issues. The Constitution itself spells out the only specific examples of when a super majority vote of the Senate is needed...and as a normal course of legislating is not included therein. The filibuster should be ended, and senators should stand for reelection on their recorded up or down votes.
You can scream to the highest mountain...The Federal Government can NOT codify Roe.
Harris wants to impose her pro-abortion fanaticism on all of us. So much for being “pro-choice.”
Dimocrats will never acknowledge the obvious.
If she were to be elected President, this would be just one of many moves that would result in the demise of this nation. It’s already in motion under Sleepy Joe.
We must win.
Joe Manchin is saying - for now anyways, he isn’t endorsing kamala- We’ll see if another sweetheart deal is given to one of his family members again like before
The filibuster protects everyone, all sides. That's fine.
We’ve already done away with the filibuster for confirmation of presidential appointees, including Supreme Court Justices.
While at one time it was unthinkable to change filibuster rules, it is no longer unthinkable.
>We can just overrule a co-equal branch of government.
The democrats
This is the contempt they have for federalism.
>We can have sanctuary cities, states’ rights!
>But you must comply with shopped federal district court orders to allow your state to be invaded, preemption!
you have zero understanding of this.
Please explain how I am wrong....
Prior to Reagan, there was never a 60 vote requirement to approve judicial nominations of POTUS...at least not as a normal course of the advise and consent process. It was always a simple majority vote.
Dimocrats changed the filibuster to include judicial nominees, just to stop Reagan judges from being confirmed. In fact, dimocrats have repeatedly changed the filibuster rules in the Senate to suit themselves. Ironic that it ultimately bit them in the @$$.
Now that the Republicans declared they won’t do anything on abortion at a national level, why would their be a filibuster? If the Dems want to do it, they will have a free pass.
Manchin is just playing for votes
No. The filibuster is a name for the Senate’s time honored tradition of unlimited debate. From 1806 on a senator could take the floor and speak as long as he wished, and he could yield the floor to a comrade who would hold forth while the original senator took a break, and could take back the floor when he was ready..Hence the filibuster became in effect a threat of a filibuster, which could be carried on indefinitely, paralyzing the senate. Acknowledgment of this fact led to the rule change allowing a “filibuster” without the presence of a speaker. at the podium, which allowed for other business to go forward.
Again...that was never applied to the advise and consent process except in exceptional circumstances. Confirmation was always a simple majority vote. Dimocrats changed that tradition under Reagan.
bro..the filibuster holds the whole thing together. Get rid of that, then why even have a Senate?. The Senate simply becomes the same as the House. It would be total chaos. Every 2 years each side would ram everything thru and also undo what the other side did. Use your brains, geez. This is jr high school stuff.
The United States would be a dictatorship now if the RATS had succeeded in ending the Filibuster.
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