Reid Changing Filibuster Rules

[TemplarKormac]

Reid noted that in the first 140 yrs of this great nation's history that filibusters weren't used/needed. How did they manage eh? Its on the cspan video i put up on the last page for those of you interested in some statistics

So we use this reasoning to deny the minority party their rights?

 

[HenryBHough]

Minority PARTIES have no rights.

Now ethnic minorities, well they have TURBO-CHARGED rights.

Don't believe me?

Ask Harry - or Eric.

Don't ask Nancy; too stupid to understand the question.

 

[Rambunctious]

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Reid is such a freaking idiot. He just gave the conservatives a way to repeal ObamaCare when we win the senate...hahahahahahahahahaha

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Reid noted that in the first 140 yrs of this great nation's history that filibusters weren't used/needed. How did they manage eh? Its on the cspan video i put up on the last page for those of you interested in some statistics

We used to have duels at sunrise

 

[NYcarbineer]

We'll know the rightwingers aren't being hypocritical about this when the next time the GOP gets a 50 something majority in the Senate

they start calling for a reinstatement of the filibuster.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Reid noted that in the first 140 yrs of this great nation's history that filibusters weren't used/needed. How did they manage eh? Its on the cspan video i put up on the last page for those of you interested in some statistics

So we use this reasoning to deny the minority party their rights?

The minority should have the right to block all presidential appointments?

WTF?

 

[Geaux4it]

We'll know the rightwingers aren't being hypocritical about this when the next time the GOP gets a 50 something majority in the Senate

they start calling for a reinstatement of the filibuster.

Obama and Reid showed more signs of weakness. They are indeed underestimating the will of whats left of the United States

-Geaux

 

[Sarah G]

Why Democrats Partially Nuked the Filibuster

Their next line of defense is the D.C. Circuit, the federal court that handles regulatory cases. If and when the Environmental Protection Agency issues regulations on existing power plants, the D.C. Circuit will rule on their legality. Republicans had announced their intention to block any Obama appointment at all to the court’s three vacant positions in order to protect their party’s functional majority. (The court is currently split evenly, but it sends its overflow caseload to retired judges, who are mostly Republican.) The D.C. Circuit is where Republicans had hoped to block those parts of Obama’s executive agenda they couldn’t gum up by denying the agencies a functioning director.

Senate Democrats changed the rules because they felt burned by Republicans. In 2005, Senate Republicans threatened to carry out the same nuclear rules change, and Democrats backed down. One of the judges Democrats agreed to let through, Janice Rogers Brown, holds radical libertarian beliefs, and just struck down Obama’s birth-control-insurance mandate. The double standard in which a Republican president can seat a Janice Rogers Brown and a Democratic president can’t even seat moderates judges with bipartisan support like Patricia Millett became too galling for Democrats to stand.

Why Democrats Partially Nuked the Filibuster -- Daily Intelligencer

It isn't because of specific court cases that Democrats are faced with or stacking the courts, it's Republicans who are concerned with stacking the courts in their favor. They brought it on themselves by consistently denying this president his confirmations, stalling, hoping they win the senate or the presidency.

As the full article notes, Obama was tapping moderate judges.

I'm so happy Reid did this, finally. It restores my faith in him.

 

[HenryBHough]

Even Putin would think some of Nobama's appointees as left wing extremists.

 

[TemplarKormac]

We'll know the rightwingers aren't being hypocritical about this when the next time the GOP gets a 50 something majority in the Senate

they start calling for a reinstatement of the filibuster.

Actually, they'll be fixing what you Democrats screwed up. You'll wind up thanking them.

 

[Amelia]

We'll know the rightwingers aren't being hypocritical about this when the next time the GOP gets a 50 something majority in the Senate

they start calling for a reinstatement of the filibuster.

Yeah, you know they won't. So go ahead and gloat about them being hypocrites. And keep gloating while Republicans walk through the door Democrats have opened. Enjoy Republicans stacking the courts with people who believe Roe v. Wade was bad law and staffing the EPA with people who believe humans should come before the Delta Smelt. Enjoy Republicans broadening the ban on filibustering.

What great satisfaction you'll have when Republicans take advantage of the new tool Democrats have given the majority party.

 

[NYcarbineer]

We'll know the rightwingers aren't being hypocritical about this when the next time the GOP gets a 50 something majority in the Senate

they start calling for a reinstatement of the filibuster.

Obama and Reid showed more signs of weakness. They are indeed underestimating the will of whats left of the United States

-Geaux

That's the dumbest thing you've said all week.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Reid noted that in the first 140 yrs of this great nation's history that filibusters weren't used/needed. How did they manage eh? Its on the cspan video i put up on the last page for those of you interested in some statistics

So we use this reasoning to deny the minority party their rights?

The minority should have the right to block all presidential appointments?

WTF?

Yeah, just what stopped the Democrats from filibustering Bush's appointments? Care to answer that question?

 

[TemplarKormac]

We'll know the rightwingers aren't being hypocritical about this when the next time the GOP gets a 50 something majority in the Senate

they start calling for a reinstatement of the filibuster.

Obama and Reid showed more signs of weakness. They are indeed underestimating the will of whats left of the United States

-Geaux

That's the dumbest thing you've said all week.

Oh really? You say quite a few dumb things in one day, much less a week.

 

[NYcarbineer]

We'll know the rightwingers aren't being hypocritical about this when the next time the GOP gets a 50 something majority in the Senate

they start calling for a reinstatement of the filibuster.

Actually, they'll be fixing what you Democrats screwed up. You'll wind up thanking them.

You really think that a supermajority for routine judicial and administrative appointments is a good idea?

What is wrong with you, exactly?

 

[Geaux4it]

We'll know the rightwingers aren't being hypocritical about this when the next time the GOP gets a 50 something majority in the Senate

they start calling for a reinstatement of the filibuster.

Obama and Reid showed more signs of weakness. They are indeed underestimating the will of whats left of the United States

-Geaux

That's the dumbest thing you've said all week.

I take it you mean since last Sunday?

-Geaux

 

[TemplarKormac]

We'll know the rightwingers aren't being hypocritical about this when the next time the GOP gets a 50 something majority in the Senate

they start calling for a reinstatement of the filibuster.

Actually, they'll be fixing what you Democrats screwed up. You'll wind up thanking them.

You really think that a supermajority for routine judicial and administrative appointments is a good idea?

What is wrong with you, exactly?

Once again, you had a supermajority that forced that travesty of a healthcare law down America's throat. So did you really think a supermajority was needed for a legislative process instead of bipartisan support? Obviously, it's only good for you when you have one and nobody else.

How hypocritical are you, exactly?

 

[Wyld Kard]

Harry Reid changing the filibuster rules is not only a move to grab more power for the corrupt democraps, it is also an act of desperation.

 

[Sarah G]

Actually, they'll be fixing what you Democrats screwed up. You'll wind up thanking them.

You really think that a supermajority for routine judicial and administrative appointments is a good idea?

What is wrong with you, exactly?

Once again, you had a supermajority that forced that travesty of a healthcare law down America's throat. So did you really think a supermajority was needed for a legislative process instead of bipartisan support? Obviously, it's only good for you when you have one and nobody else.

How hypocritical are you, exactly?

Why don't you tell him and the rest of us, what is wrong with you, exactly?

 

[Synthaholic]

how about adding 3 judges to a court that doesn't need them as stipulated, I already said they were not overloaded and their cases have fallen in fact ( see below). http://news.yahoo.com/filibuster-reaction-harry-reid-nuclear-hypocrisy-184412234.html

Ridiculous argument. It's the president's Constitutional responsibility to fill empty seats.

Why do conservatives only want to follow the Constitution when it agrees with them?