Richard Shelby Threatens Filibuster Over Auto Bailout

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Run time: 01:43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6RiFxucJn8   Posted on YouTube: December 08, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 08, 2008 By DU Member: Amerigo Vespucci Views on DU: 2424

 

[navarth]

1. time to start exposing the hypocrisy of this son of a bitch

I hope somebody calls him out for Alabama's HUGE government subsidies of the foreign non-union automakers

[VeraAgnes]

2. What a hateful man.

He is a miserable son of a bitch.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

3. Richard Shelby, I want to kick your testicles off.

But I won't. Because I don't want to go to jail.

[shotten99]

4. The bailout won't help the Hyundai factory in Alabama

Why should he care? Not his problem.
worthless fucking turncoat

[bigbrother05]

24. Or the Honda or Mercedes plants

[rurallib]

5. Give him the floor Reid. Let America hear his stupidity

Don't give us this "we don't have 60 votes so they win with 41" bullshit any more. Expose these fuckers to the fucking light. When America sees this horse shit they will be all over them.

[Better Believe It]

12. Exactly! I'm tired of hearing the b.s. that we can't tolerate a filibuster

therefore, rather than let the reactionaries filibuster the Democrats throw in the towel!

Let the Republicans filibuster on every piece of progressive legislation they oppose. The public will grow tired of their disruption.

But don't use the scary, scary and ever so frightening threat of a filibuster as an excuse to drop progressive legislation!

[Triana]

6. CRETIN!

:grr:

[BlueJac]

7. How UnAmerican, non-patriotic can you get?...........

Support the workers, you suck ass Shelby!!!

[Skink]

8. Shelby vows the plunge the country into darkness.

They aren't done yet.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. And with the threat of a filibuster...

Harry will give in. He was an ineffective minority leader, now he is an ineffective majority leader.

[ShortnFiery]

26. Frist frightened Reid, et. al. with The Nuclear Option EFFECTIVELY in the past. How 'bout pay back?

[DBoon]

10. Shelby hates the idea of well paid, proud, organized workers

He wants to bring slavery back

[Better Believe It]

11. Let Him Filibuster! All filibusters end. We just need 51 votes to pass

[digidigido]

17. All filibusters don't end, and you need 60 to stop it

[Better Believe It]

27. Your Wrong: All filibusters end in one of five ways.

1.Democratic leaders cave in at the mere threat of a filibuster and withdraw their bill.

2.Democratic leaders cave in almost immediately after a Senate filibuster actually starts and withdraw their bill.

3.Democratic leaders wait out a filibuster until the Republican Senator(s) end their speechmaking so they can proceed to an up and down vote on the bill.

4. Democratic leaders wait out a filibuster until they have 60 votes to end the filibuster.

5. When the Republicans control the Senate, the Democratic leaders give up their right to filibuster and approve all of Bush's presidential appointments and legislation that have the support of 50 Senators or more.

So tell me .... what's wrong with letting the Republicans filibuster .... if they want to tie up the Senate for a day or a week, let them! The right-wing filibustered against civil rights and other progressive legislation in the 1960's and Democrats didn't withdraw progressive bills simply because of filibusters. Every filibuster ends .... if that wasn't true, wouldn't the Senate be involved in a filibuster right now?

I just don't want to hear in 2009 the lame excuse repeated over and over and over again that the Senate can't enact progressive legislation because there aren't 60 Democratic Senators!

And I think that's what were being set-up for.

[sasquatch]

13. Cut off ALL federal funding to Alabama

[The Wizard]

14. They always threaten to filibuster

but it never happens. Make them talk until they're blue in the face or die trying. Just make them do it.
Call their bluff of find new leadership.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. I thought the idea was to prevent millions from losing their jobs

Shelby suggests that as a condition of supporting a bailout, millions (well, only hundreds of thousands, maybe) will lose theirs.

This is a non-starter.

The firing 60% of management part I rather like. In fact, let's make sure the auto workers and taxpayers own the big three. It's simply elitist to suggest after 30 years of mismanagement that assembly line workers with high school diplomas can't run a company better than Harvard MBAs and Ivy League lawyers.

Hey, you kind of car do want to drive to work? OK, build it!

[boomerbust]

16. jody

Come on jody, I know you're out there just itching to stand up for Mr. Shelby your hero. You can do it.

[navarth]

19. LOL

where's my popcorn

[Guaranteed]

18. Oh, so he wants to be obstructionist.

Well, there's always the "nuclear option," right?

[digidigido]

20. If the UAW unionized foreign car manufacturers and we leveled the playing field

then this would make a hell of a lot more sense. The problem with Globalization is that it
was supposed to bring the world up. Instead what it's doing is driving American workers
down

[ksimons]

21. he's digging himself a hole of isolation in the new Obama administration

good luck with that

isolation from a popular president with billions to spend is going to hurt his state like nobody can imagine
keep it up - want to see it in action myself

[depakid]

22. Dear Alabama dickhead: no $43 billion dollar tanker contract for you

and your constituents (even if your group does have the better plane).

[WoodyM]

23. This man is the

ranking member of the Senate Banking committee that never raised a question or proposed any restriction or conditions on the far greater bailout for the banks and financial intuitions. Urinate on the working man whenever and wherever you can.

[ShortnFiery]

25. THE NUCLEAR OPTION? GOP (Frist) effectively frightened spineless Reid on a few years back?