Democrats are increasingly calling it a ‘Republican Congres

[RetiredGySgt]

Haven't we been hearing for a year that the Republicans won a historic landslide victory in 2010?

NOW, they didn't actually win anything???

lol

Yes they did, IN THE HOUSE. Any lie is a good lie to a democrat right? 2 Houses of Congress only one controlled by the Republicans, the other Controlled by the democrats. This Congress is not a Republican Congress.

 

[Article 15]

So you ADMIT that all 8 years under bush he never controlled Congress? That is what you are claiming, that without 60 votes the minority party controls the Senate. Republicans never had more then 55 seats in the Senate under Bush.

Or is THAT different?

No. You are contending that.

Doesn't that Republican from S.C. have a "standing filibuster" in the Senate? Whats his name again?

You have claimed that the republicans control this Congress even though the Senate is controlled by the democrats. Your rationale is that since the minority can filibuster that proves the Republicans control the Senate.

Using that logic then your claim is that the republicans never controlled the Senate the 8 years Bush was president since they never had more then 55 seats.

But as I see you are trying to waffle on that and claim that is some how different.

The GOP have been smashing filibuster records since they became a minority in the Senate.

You can put away your strawmen and shut the fuck up now.

 

[del]

thread-fail el oh el can you use profanity like that outside of the flame zone?

are you fucking kidding me?

 

[WillowTree]

No. You are contending that.

Doesn't that Republican from S.C. have a "standing filibuster" in the Senate? Whats his name again?

You have claimed that the republicans control this Congress even though the Senate is controlled by the democrats. Your rationale is that since the minority can filibuster that proves the Republicans control the Senate.

Using that logic then your claim is that the republicans never controlled the Senate the 8 years Bush was president since they never had more then 55 seats.

But as I see you are trying to waffle on that and claim that is some how different.

The GOP have been smashing filibuster records since they became a minority in the Senate.

You can put away your strawmen and shut the fuck up now.

let's blame it on da blue dawgs..

 

[RetiredGySgt]

No. You are contending that.

Doesn't that Republican from S.C. have a "standing filibuster" in the Senate? Whats his name again?

You have claimed that the republicans control this Congress even though the Senate is controlled by the democrats. Your rationale is that since the minority can filibuster that proves the Republicans control the Senate.

Using that logic then your claim is that the republicans never controlled the Senate the 8 years Bush was president since they never had more then 55 seats.

But as I see you are trying to waffle on that and claim that is some how different.

The GOP have been smashing filibuster records since they became a minority in the Senate.

You can put away your strawmen and shut the fuck up now.

So you AGREE under Bush he never controlled the Senate thanks for admitting it.

 

[Article 15]

You have claimed that the republicans control this Congress even though the Senate is controlled by the democrats. Your rationale is that since the minority can filibuster that proves the Republicans control the Senate.

Using that logic then your claim is that the republicans never controlled the Senate the 8 years Bush was president since they never had more then 55 seats.

But as I see you are trying to waffle on that and claim that is some how different.

The GOP have been smashing filibuster records since they became a minority in the Senate.

You can put away your strawmen and shut the fuck up now.

So you AGREE under Bush he never controlled the Senate thanks for admitting it.

You really are a dumb fuck. The point is that Bush had a loyal opposition....or at least the semblance of one.

 

[Leweman]

The GOP have been smashing filibuster records since they became a minority in the Senate.

You can put away your strawmen and shut the fuck up now.

So you AGREE under Bush he never controlled the Senate thanks for admitting it.

You really are a dumb fuck. The point is the Bush had a loyal opposition....or at least the semblance of one.

really?

 

[Article 15]

So you AGREE under Bush he never controlled the Senate thanks for admitting it.

You really are a dumb fuck. The point is the Bush had a loyal opposition....or at least the semblance of one.

really?

Really.

 

[WillowTree]

 

[Listening]

Haven't we been hearing for a year that the Republicans won a historic landslide victory in 2010?

NOW, they didn't actually win anything???

lol

Yes they did, IN THE HOUSE. Any lie is a good lie to a democrat right? 2 Houses of Congress only one controlled by the Republicans, the other Controlled by the democrats. This Congress is not a Republican Congress.

My goodness....

This seems like it just would not be that hard to understand....you did a good job.

The GOP did win a historic landslide in 2010. It was historic for a number of reasons.

First, the GOP was dead and buried in 2008. The pundits said it would be a decade before they were ever relevent again.

Second, it seems that just six months out it looked like the GOP would get back some seats. Then it looked like they might get close. Then it looked like a majority. By the time it actually happened....President Obama got quite a message on his first two years. He lost a lot of experienced incumbants who got their crushed.

Third, the filibuster proof majority of dems in the senate went away. The GOP came up short of a majority....but they gained ground back and will finish the job in 2012.

Fourth, even Rachael Maddow admitted it was a real spanking. When Rachael admits the libs lost....you know they lost. She is like listening to Kieth Jackson call a Notre Dame game.

 

[Claudette]

Last I heard the Senate was controlled by the Dems.

The House has sent plenty of bills to the Senate.

Those bills are gathering dust on Reids desk. He has refused to bring them up for debate and vote. Looks like the Dems are holding the reins not the Reps.

Now tell me that its a Republican Congress

 

[Conservative]

http://www.rollcall.com/news/-201997-1.html

Sen. Harry Reid set a record during the 111th Congress by becoming the chamber’s most successful Majority Leader in history at killing attempted filibusters.

Though the Nevada Democrat’s batting average took a nose dive in 2010, Reid won 69 percent of his total attempts to shut down threatened filibusters in the two years of the 111th Congress that began January 2009.

The current partisan clash over cloture votes has largely come down to GOP objections to bringing many measures up for debate. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has repeatedly said Republicans have been trying to ensure their right to offer amendments on the floor.

On Dec. 18, McConnell took to the floor to highlight what he called majority Democrat’s “dubious record” of “denying the minority its right to amendment a total of 43 times.”

McConnell noted that Frist, over a similar four-year period, used the procedure known as filling the amendment tree, only 15 times to prevent then-minority Democrats from offering amendments.

“The current Majority has blocked the minority from offering amendments more often than the last six Majority Leaders combined,” McConnell asserted.

Besides reacting to McConnell’s push for “minority rights,” Reid also has attempted to use the cloture motion as a bludgeon in recent years. For example, Reid held three separate cloture votes on this spring’s financial regulatory reform measure in an attempt to put public pressure on wavering Republicans, Democratic aides acknowledged. The gambit worked, with the GOP allowing the bill to come to the floor by unanimous consent shortly after the third cloture vote.

On other votes, such as two separate roll calls on a campaign finance measure designed to mitigate the effects of a recent Supreme Court decision, Reid knew he didn’t have the votes, but he hoped to put Republicans on record as supporting corporate money in elections, Democratic aides have said.

So, the GOP controls the congress through filibuster... even though Reid broke 69% of the attempts? Last time I checked the new math, a 69% win record for the Dems was better than a 31% record for the GOP on filibusters.

 

[Conservative]

And BOOM goes the Dems argument.