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Showing Original Post only (View all)hahahahahaha Limbaugh Has A Meltdown Over The "Nuclear Option" [View all]
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/21/limbaugh-has-a-meltdown-over-the-nuclear-option/197012snip
Obama's going to get every judge he wants. He's going to get -- if they want to add seats to a court -- if they want to add five new liberal seats to the D.C. Circuit, for example, they can do it, there's no stopping them, because the Republicans don't have the votes.
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Democrats abruptly changed the Senate's balance of power by reducing from 60 to 51 the number of votes needed to end procedural roadblocks known as filibusters against all presidential nominees. Folks, this is part and parcel of why the Democrats are so hell-bent on winning the House in 2014. This -- winning the House would give them total authoritarian non-challengeable control over the US government. Quite literally there would be no way to stop them. None whatsoever.
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When the minority is Republicans, they don't even exist. And they're not due any respect, constitutional or otherwise. Constitutional or human. And so basically what this means, with a president like Obama, is there's no stopping -- he can nominate anybody for anything in the judiciary ... cabinet, whatever. There's no way he can be stopped.
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Democrats have made it plain they're not interested in democracy. And that really is what this means. Not interested in democracy at all. Total statist authoritarianism. And frankly, I'm being kind with that terminology.
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was it good for you.
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I think he blew his money on Oxy and young Dominican Republican male prostitutes.
Arugula Latte
Nov 2013
#6
Only his dedicated fools will buy a sixty vote majority has anything to do with democracy.
jwirr
Nov 2013
#5
We do, but they really don't know the feeling. They're used to having their way regardless.
OnionPatch
Nov 2013
#10
You know we are moving in the right direction if Rush is mad about something
Heather MC
Nov 2013
#42
If Limbaugh would just shut up and eat his Republicon DRUGS he would feel better
Berlum
Nov 2013
#15
Rush is firing them up for 2014, so laugh if you like. <bold> 2014 </bold> . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2013
#23
I wonder when the last time republicans were halfway reasonable? The 1860's?
MatthewStLouis
Nov 2013
#35
What a liar. "Democrats have made it plain they're not interested in democracy."
Jack Rabbit
Nov 2013
#40
How many Oxys does it take to 'help' limpblob through a crisis such as this? knr nt
livingwagenow
Nov 2013
#47