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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 09:56 AM Original message |
Dick Durbin: Time to change the filibuster |
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LonePirate (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. Shame on Durbin for not doing something about this back in January when he had the chance. |
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Firebrand Gary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
2. Fuck Durbin! That filibuster better remain exactly where it is when the GOP takes over. |
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LonePirate (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Don't kid yourself, the filibuster is history as soon as the Rs control Congress and the WH again |
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Firebrand Gary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:21 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. You might be right. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. Oh yeah, like they wont take it away because the Dem's didnt. Fuzzy Logic. nm |
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bullimiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
3. how about just making them actually fillibuster instead of taking a vote and going home? |
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LonePirate (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:05 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. That works for the obstructionist Rethugs as they don't want anything to get done. |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. You really think they got into politics to work? |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
6. A mere 51 Senators can change the rule. nt |
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Firebrand Gary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:22 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. No way, I am not for it. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:46 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. "democracy" or any semblance thereof, you mean? |
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Ed Suspicious (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:52 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Actually I would say it is exactly what the founders had intended. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Nonsense. The filibuster doesn't exist in any form in the US Constitution. It's a Senate Rule. |
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Ed Suspicious (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I guess I was saying the filibuster was in keeping with the spirit |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. It's a bad argument, invoking the Founders' intent for a provision they didn't write, and that |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Agree the founders wanted a delibritive process, but what we have is a STOPPED process. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. What? The rule is being misused to STOP the process altogether. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 12:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. You left out the why. nm |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
9. Words this should have been changed the first day this senate met |
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nineteen50 (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-23-11 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
14. If |
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