DNC Sees Cindy McCain's Wealth as Fair Game

[Jeepers]

Wow you must have been asleep through the 2000 and 2004 elections then.

Crap.. I cant rep ya again...

 

[sealybobo]

Crap.. I cant rep ya again...

What does this mean?

But if you really said you don't remember anyone giving Kerry or Gore a hard time over who their fathers were, that's laughable.

 

[Care4all]

What does this mean?

But if you really said you don't remember anyone giving Kerry or Gore a hard time over who their fathers were, that's laughable.

rep, stands for reputation points....in the upper right corner of a post you like or don't like, you can click the SCALES on the right and give a positive or negative comment or REP points to the person....

we are limited on giving out rep points, thus jeepers was not able to give a pos rep, because he had recently given a pos rep to this person....you need to dish out positive reps to 7 other people before you can rep the same person again, or something like that.....

 

[sealybobo]

rep, stands for reputation points....in the upper right corner of a post you like or don't like, you can click the SCALES on the right and give a positive or negative comment or REP points to the person....

we are limited on giving out rep points, thus jeepers was not able to give a pos rep, because he had recently given a pos rep to this person....you need to dish out positive reps to 7 other people before you can rep the same person again, or something like that.....

Found this on Huffington Post:

Over the past five years, there have been more than 260 threats of a legislative filibuster in the Senate. But the numbers suggest that with Democrats now in power, such tactics are dramatically on the rise. Sixty-four times this year legislation has come before the Senate requiring 60 votes or more to pass - almost twice as many as all of last year, when the balance of power was switched, and nearly three times as much as 2005.

With more than three months left to go in the current Congress, the U.S. Senate has already seen 45 cloture motions -- measures introduced by a senator requiring a 3/5 majority to end debate. Twenty-three of these motions have been rejected. In addition, there have been 19 votes in which the Senate has voluntarily agreed to work along a three-fifths threshold, thereby avoiding the cumbersome process of invoking cloture (which requires a 30-hour waiting period). In 2006, such a procedural move occurred just twice.

Combined, these methods of forcing super-majority votes have made the current Congress a paradigm of political gridlock. Among the legislation that has succumbed to natural and pseudo-filibustering are amendments to advance stem cell research, a bill that would have reduced the cost of attending college, multiple pieces of legislation designed to facilitate a drawdown of troops from Iraq, and a provision that would have allowed the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate drug prices with drug companies.

"This is part of a longer trend, whereby 60 votes are now required for anything significant," Stuart Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report, said to the Huffington Post. "It used to be that requiring 60 votes, members had to bring in cots and have a real filibuster. Now the minority simply says no, we're not going let you bring that up. It's the way the process has changed on the Hill."

On the whole, the GOP has proven successful in using procedural tactics to drastically slow down Democratic priorities. As speaker of the Montana Legislature, Senator John Tester, D-MT, saw more than 1,000 bills in a three-month period. In Washington, the number of bills sent by Congress to the President so far this year has numbered 89.