Dan Quayle (who?) fails civics again, thinks 51 votes is a House majority

[Newsjock]

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/quayle-51-votes-not-what-our-founding-fathers-had-in-mind.php?ref=fpb

Former Vice President Dan Quayle appeared on Fox News this afternoon to chip in his two cents on the health care debate. Namely, he warned that using the reconciliation process would set a "very bad precedent" because a simple majority is just unconstitutional.

"They're gonna go to budget reconciliation, which I believe would set a very bad precedent, because essentially -- if they could do it, and I don't know if they can do it, but if they could do it -- what you have done, effectively, is to take away the filibuster in the United States Senate," Quayle said. "So, therefore, you have 51 votes in the House and 51 votes in the Senate. That is not what our Founding Fathers had in mind. That is not the constitutional process."

[joeybee12]

1. Dumb, dumb, dumb....

...always has been, always will be.

[niyad]

2. the stoopid is still strong in this one.

[damntexdem]

3. We already knew that Quayle was an idiot.

The sad thing is that he gets any play at all, even on Faux News. Of course, the really sad thing is Faux News.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. Remember: this is the station that hired Palin as an analyst

As in someone who engages in deep thought and analyzes things.

[farmout rightarm]

4. I say potato, he says potatoe

:shrug:

[panader0]

5. Dan Quayle's ignorance aside, I fail to understand why a simple majority

is not good enough. When you run for office, you can win with 50.1 percent of the vote. Then when you become an elected representative of the people who voted for you, you suddenly need 60 percent. Stupid, IMO.

[KingFlorez]

6. He's an idiot, so his error doesn't surprise

But since when is a simple majority unconstitutional? What is unconstitutional is the minority holding up the agenda of the majority party the people chose to put in charge.

[NoPasaran]

7. He must have been dropped on his head a lot when he was young

[Xolodno]

9. Heh....JUST Dan Quayle?

[DesertRat]

10. That's not all he said on Fox today

Let's hope his son is fell far from the tree...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=139x6752 :puke:

[47of74]

11. I see he's still not the sharpest penci in that particular box

And that's saying quite a bit too.