Reply With QuoteWay too late.
...if the Democrats win.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...ms-hold-senateReid: Bet on filibuster changes if Obama, Dems win in November
By Pete Kasperowicz - 06/07/12 09:54 AM ET
A frustrated Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he and other Democrats would likely push for changes to Senate filibuster rules if the Democrats hold the Senate in November, and blamed Republican obstructionism for forcing these changes.
"I'll just bet you … if we maintain a majority, and I feel quite confident that we can do that, and the president is reelected, there is going to be some changes," Reid said on the Senate floor Thursday morning. "We can no longer go through this, every bill, filibusters on bills that they agree with. It's just a waste of time to prevent us from getting things done."
Reid was frustrated over Thursday's planned 10:30 a.m. procedural vote on the farm bill — specifically, a vote to end debate on the motion to proceed to that bill. Reid implied that Republicans have not consented to proceeding to the bill, which forced his hand to try ending debate through a vote.
"We're going to have a cloture vote on the ability for us to proceed to the bill, the ability of us to start legislating," Reid said. "I don't need to give a lecture … about how vexatious this is that we have to do this every time."
Despite Reid's frustration, the vote to end debate on the motion to proceed to the bill is expected to succeed, which should launch several weeks of work on the farm bill.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
Way too late.
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Reid's decision to not fix the filibuster back in 2008 is the reason we're ****ed the way we're ****ed. Reid can suck my bloody **** because he intentionally didn't fix the filibuster when he had the chance, even though everyone told him what would happen if he didn't, and now I just want Reid to be thrown off a cliff because I no longer care for his games.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
At least someone is offering to fix it.
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"Capitalism ho!"
I... agree... 100%... with Oerdin?Originally Posted by Dinner
I think I need to lie down in a cool, dark room for a while, and contemplate just what went wrong in my life that brought me to this point.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
Didn't he already use the nuclear option to pass Obamacare? I don't think you can pull the trigger twice. He's spent.
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"*** dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum"
Well, this plan couldn't possibly backfire, now could it?
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Join the dark side.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
You also have a bloody ****?
What can I say? Ann Coulter really wanted my dick, and I forgot about the teeth.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
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