Senate Republicans Gearing Up To Filibuster Recovery Package Despite Promises To The Contrary
Senate Republicans Gearing Up To Filibuster Recovery Package Despite Promises To The Contrary
Last night on NPR’s All Things Considered, host Robert Siegel asked Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) about the prospects of a Republican filibuster of the Senate’s version of the economic recovery package. Grassley responded that Republicans would indeed filibuster the package, requiring the bill to garner a 60-vote majority for passage:
SIEGEL: By the way, Senator, we always just assume that anything in the Senate requires 60 votes because there will be a filibuster threat. Is that right? Does this bill need 60 votes to pass?
GRASSLEY: Yes.
SIEGAL: It does?
GRASSLEY: Yes.
Listen here:
Grassley’s promise of a filibuster is surprising given the fact that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly said that Republicans “would not filibuster against the stimulus package.” He remarked earlier this month, “I don’t think this measure’s going to have any problem getting over 60 votes.”
But now, as Grassley indicated last night, McConnell may not be able to keep his word as conservative opposition to the package grows.
Despite the fact that the Senate version of the recovery package is already loaded up with a significant number of provisions sought by conservative Republicans and the pro-business lobby, a number of senators are working with Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) to coordinate opposition to the package, and as CNS News reports today, “a filibuster is a possible part of that plan“:
“I think its going to take 60 votes to pass the bill,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) told CNSNews.com, indicating the likelihood of a filibuster.
“Whatever we can do, whether offering amendments, whether voting against the bill because it could not be amended, or whatever parliamentary possibilities are in front of us we will explore because this isn’t about playing the game,” Sen. Kyl told CNSNews.com when asked whether he would filibuster the bill or encourage his colleagues to do so. [...]
“I would be a part of it,” Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said when CNSNews.com asked him if he personally would participate in a filibuster.
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Dig in your heels, Republicans… and before you know it, those heels will be six feet under.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:08 pmOh, do it!! DO IT!!! Go for it, Pukes!!!
This is going to be fun!!!
January 30th, 2009 at 6:09 pmPlease do…the people of the United States will have your ass at the next election. Rrpublicans will become extinct ;)
January 30th, 2009 at 6:13 pmMN Senate Election Contest Guide w/ Recaps
January 30th, 2009 at 6:14 pmLefties…
January 30th, 2009 at 6:14 pmHeh. I know- Can’t wait for the bloodletting to begin…
These are the same ridiculous, lame Republicans who always screamed that anyone who did not support the president in un-American & treasonous. What a bunch of out-of-touch losers.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:18 pmIf this country falls into a deep Depression — the Republicans OWN IT.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:19 pmI hope Reid makes them actually filibuster. Don’t just let them threaten to do it, make them actually do it. With thousands of people losing their jobs every day, I want to see the republicans block an economic stimulus package and prevent it from going to an up or down vote. Good luck with that. The campaign commercials that would provide for democrats would be priceless.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:19 pmDoesn’t work that way. If the minority leader says there’s no filibuster, there’s no filibuster. 40 votes are needed to keep the discussion open. Grassley, Session, Kyl and Inhofe can not make those 40 votes happen, no matter how much they would like to.
…unless McConnell is lying and is setting up the Dems to stab them in the back.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:25 pmAnd Harry Reid needs to give them the phone book and say have at it. Then the Democrats need to hold a news conference every morning and tell the public how many more people in this country lost their jobs that day.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:25 pmand for some reason Im not suprised…imagine that
and oh did you hear the dems are being partisan
January 30th, 2009 at 6:27 pmDammit, call their bluff!!!
January 30th, 2009 at 6:31 pmAs much as I do not want to delay the stimulus package I almost hope the repugs do filibuster. The dems should take every opportunity – send out every spokesman available – write op eds – go on GMA, Today, and CNN – everywhere, and tell American people what the repugniscum ideology is doing to them, the people.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:36 pmTheir party is more important to them than the public.
They were hired by the public, and they are betraying them.
The public needs to fire their asses ASAP and let the Obama program go on without them.
The delay in seating Franken in MN is playing a part in the repugniscum strategy.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:37 pmPhuckers! Make ‘em do it, Harry!
Most Americans don’t understand what a filibuster is or what it means. So show them! Stay there for days, nights, however long it takes. Don’t back down. Show the public what the GOP really represents. These pussies will put a “secret hold” on this bill before they go through with a filibuster because if the GOPers are anything, they’re lazy!
And Grassley, were you sleeping during civics class? During senate orientation? Because no, it does not take 60 votes for the bill to pass, just to be brought up for a vote.
PEACE
January 30th, 2009 at 6:37 pmI HOPE HE FAILS.
- gop
January 30th, 2009 at 6:45 pmOh PLEASE filibuster it! Would love America to watch the GOP do this . . . especially that America (most of it) that doesn’t follow the news as closely as we do.
And Reid better damn well make em do it.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pmSo the Republicans are fine with 600,000 first time claims per week on unemployment while they filibuster. This obstructionist at all cost tactic will not be lost on the voters. They need to stand for something rather than just being stubborn obstructionist that stand for nothing. While I am sure that their base is cheering wildly, they don’t seem to realize that their base has shrunk to a size where it cannot win a national election.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pmI think the broken, irrelevant, and marginal GOP wants to permantly stay in the trash heap of history. If they believe they are victims now, just wait for their place in Congress to disappear. Puff! Dude, where’s my party?
January 30th, 2009 at 6:49 pmI’d love to see a poll today regarding what americans think of the GOP Obstructionists. Yesterday we learned that 44 states are clearly Democrat now. Soon the others will begin to turn as these assclowns dig themselves a very deep grave.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:51 pmStay classy, Repukes! Show your big fat elephant a$$es for everyone to see. Sadly for you, americans are laughing theirs off at each and every one of you.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:52 pmStay classy, Repukes! Show your big fat elephant a$$es for everyone to see. Sadly for you, americans are laughing theirs off at each and every one of you.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:52 pmHow many of these scum sucking pigs are up for reelection next year?
January 30th, 2009 at 6:52 pmStay classy, Repukes! Show your big fat elephant a$$es for everyone to see. Sadly for you, americans are laughing theirs off at each and every one of you.
Hope they do filibuster – it will be their last hoorah! Once Judd is replaced with a Dem and Franken is seated, there will be no more listening to these whiners and impotent whimps wet their pants in front of america.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:59 pmStay classy, Repukes!
Hope they do filibuster – it will be their last hoorah! Once Judd is replaced with a Dem and Franken is seated, there will be no more listening to these whiners and impotent whimps wet their pants in front of america.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:08 pmStay classy, Repukes!
Once Judd is replaced with a Dem…
Judd won’t take the Commerce post. No way. But Obama will still get bipartisanship points for offering it.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:19 pmSeems like only yesterday someone was threatening to ‘go nuclear’ if someone else dared to filibuster important legislation. Who was that?
January 30th, 2009 at 7:25 pmugh… there’s that “white hole” again… TP’s playing with the buttons…
these headlines on googlenews struck me funny…
“well, we’re movin’ on up”…
Steele becomes first African-American RNC chairman
CNN – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Michael Steele, a former Maryland lieutenant governor, was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee on Friday.
Republicans Choose First Black Party Chairman New York Times
Republicans name an African American as their party chairman Christian Science Monitor
FOXNews – Financial Times – CBS News – BBC News
all 1,669 news articles »
woo hoo!
January 30th, 2009 at 7:33 pmyes, go ahead, pugs… filibuster.
and harry, you damn well better MAKE them…
a REAL filibuster…
of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
repeat:
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
January 30th, 2009 at 7:38 pmIf they’re going to filibuster, might as well throw in some health care or something. Windfall on another record for ex/mo. Nationalize the profits too!
January 30th, 2009 at 7:46 pmIt’s kinda sad watching the republican part implode…
January 30th, 2009 at 7:47 pmI wouldn’t mind shaving two more years off my life waiting for yet another batch of republicans to lose.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:49 pmHarry Reid better get them a bucket so they can make their speeches from the floor. If they want to filibuster, then let them actually let the American Public Hear what they have to say…
January 30th, 2009 at 7:53 pmspencers mom Says:
Phuckers! Make ‘em do it, Harry!
Most Americans don’t understand what a filibuster is or what it means.
You would be surprised how many people actually think that it takes 60 votes to pass a bill. I’ve had to set a couple of co-workers straight on that one.
If the Democrats don’t make them filibuster, then I will simply give up.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:54 pmElBruce Says:
Stay classy, Repukes!
Once Judd is replaced with a Dem…
Judd won’t take the Commerce post. No way. But Obama will still get bipartisanship points for offering it.
I’m not so sure about that. It will all depend on whether or not he wants to be unemployed in 2010. I understand that he is not expected to win re-election so if he is not a super hardened partisan (and I doubt that Obama would nominate anyone like that, then he just may take the job.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:58 pmkaty Says:
“well, we’re movin’ on up”…
woo hoo!
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Hmmm… can’t help but wonder… how did the other GOOPers ’splain the whole “Barack the Magic Negro” thingy to Michael?
Wonder if Michael found it funny?
BTW, GOOPers… welcome to the party… little late, aren’t cha?
January 30th, 2009 at 7:59 pmMake these jackals line up and kill this bill.
Make America know the faces of those who want millions to suffer, solely for the GOP’s own self-interests less than two years from now.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:00 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
Hmmm… can’t help but wonder… how did the other GOOPers ’splain the whole “Barack the Magic Negro” thingy to Michael?
Wonder if Michael found it funny?
BTW, GOOPers… welcome to the party… little late, aren’t cha?
They told him that he reminds them of Thomas Jefferson. Just that they said it with crossed fingers and when he left the room, the video montage was of George Jefferson leaving Archie Bunker’s neighborhood.
They all had a good laugh.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:03 pmWould they filibuster if it included war funding?
January 30th, 2009 at 8:05 pmHas this party learned anything. The people wonder why their business doesn’t get done here is a good example of it. So when you continue to lose your jobs think about how the republicans are acting. The more they do this the more people they turn off. You have people still voting for these fools, why I don’t know. These are the same people that sat there for 8 yrs and kept giving their buddies and Bush blank checks and now we the people are going down a black hole behind these asses. You people that vote Republican deserve everything that you get. Say tax cuts they are happy say help the middle class and poor they say screw you. So let’s these fools keep on taking down this country and the soup kitchens will be longer than they are now.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:07 pmBob Says:
Would they filibuster if it included war funding?
Not if you scribble “Surge” all over it.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:08 pmZooey Says:
If this country falls into a deep Depression — the Republicans OWN IT.
In that case, the minorities who work and handle money on Wall St. will be at fault for it.
The Republicans are sterling…just ask them!
January 30th, 2009 at 8:10 pmsectionop92 Says:
They all had a good laugh.
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Over at Huffpo, they pointed out that Steele once referred to Botch as “his homeboy”… oops… threw up in my mouth just typing that… heh…
January 30th, 2009 at 8:15 pmBut these are people who call the most partisan vote possible ‘bi-partisan’ and apologize to people that aren’t worth the saliva to spit on. Their arguments are consistent only in being contary to fact. Yet its their hardcore constituents that are the real drag. The type that get p.o.ed enough to complain about a 300 lb two year old and think a party-line vote is ‘bi-partisan’.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:31 pmGovernors can be repealed (California) and impeached (Illinois).
It’s theoretically possible to remove the President from office.
Isn’t there some way the voters can remove Congresspersons from office?
January 30th, 2009 at 9:01 pmDon’t forget, these are pretty old men! They literally can’t stand up that long. Hell, Byrd is already in a wheelchair. So Reid should file cloture votes every hour, on the hour, until they collapse from exhaustion. Or just schedule them for Sunday morning, when the Republicans are in church.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:15 pmFilibuster a Stimulus package sponsored by a president with a 70% approval rating! Are they insane? Obama’s supporters will be angry as hell. I only wish mid-term elections were earlier. R.I.P GOP! :)
January 30th, 2009 at 10:00 pmThe republicans will not allow a democrat, much less a black democrat, to succeed where they failed utterly. The republicans will pull out all the stops to reduce Obama’s potential and results to that of his inept predecessor.
The they are throwing the kitchen sink to mess up the process is to be expected, but one disturbing aspect.
Presuming the democratic minority had these same procedural ‘avenues’ and delays to protest opposition legislation during bush, why then did Pelosi, Reid and Conyers stand by while real transgressions were blatantly perpetrated on our Constitution? Not just stand by, in fact, but voting for those same outrages?
The republicans are little more than an oligarchy for corporate America, dressing up their true aim of killing labor unions, shaving civil rights and upending the level playing field, among the aims of their pyrrhic strategy; all the while slapping symbology over their craven machinations, hoping to win another throw…
Why are Reid, Pelosi and Conyers still employed? Why aren’t Feingold and Kucinich appointed to more authoritative stations to add vertebra to a shattered party backbone?
January 30th, 2009 at 10:18 pmRepubs are indeed the party of “no.” Americans are now experiencing the benefit of having Repubs in control. I hope they are pleased.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:21 pmrealpatriot Says:
It’s kinda sad watching the republican part implode…
SAD? I’m already stocking up on chips and salsa, Coors, and Buffalo wings for the party watching C-Span!
January 30th, 2009 at 10:46 pmskipped the comments, so I apologize if this is mentioned, but perhaps it will be the Democrats who exercise the “nuclear option.”
January 30th, 2009 at 11:17 pmhanshiro Says:
“Why aren’t Feingold and Kucinich appointed to more authoritative stations to add vertebra to a shattered party backbone?”
EXCELLENT POINT!!!
January 30th, 2009 at 11:48 pmIf the Republicans filibuster – if the Democrats can’t get the 60 votes, the market will fall as far as the NYEX will let it – it would fall so fast that the ticker prices would be meaningless – there would be no market. How many hours of THAT could the Republicans stand? I think that more than a half dozen Republicans would be unwilling to see that happen. But there might be two or three Democrats that would risk it because voting for the country could cost them their seats – Lincoln and Ben Nelson come to mind.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:54 pmBut there might be two or three Democrats that would risk it because voting for the country could cost them their seats – Lincoln and Ben Nelson come to mind.
The silence from Joe Leiberman on this issue is startling.
Now that the stimulus passed the House, where’s Senator Peachfuzz? Will he vote republican, and kill the package?
January 31st, 2009 at 12:15 amYes, has the CT for Lieberman Party weighed in on the issue, yet?
January 31st, 2009 at 12:32 amFrom his website:
Lieberman Tax Credit Proposal to Aid Connecticut Communities Included in Senate Stimulus
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) today praised the inclusion of a provision to expand the New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Senator Lieberman proposed the NMTC expansion to help distressed regions in Connecticut and elsewhere that are struggling with high unemployment and a rash of foreclosures.
“I am very pleased that this job creating proposal will be included in the Senate stimulus bill,” said Lieberman. “Connecticut communities that have been hard hit by the economic downturn will directly benefit from this proposal, which will spur investment and create jobs. I pledge to fight for the inclusion of this important provision in the final stimulus bill that is signed by the President.”
Apparently, I jumped the gun on Old Joe. Apologies. Sort of.
Now, his I pledge to fight for the inclusion of this important provision in the final stimulus bill that is signed by the President line can be interpreted several ways. One, that he will fight to get both the provision and the bill signed. Another, that he promises to fight to get the provision included, but doesn’t promise to fight for the final bill, if he objects to other provisions, for whatever as-yet unknown reason.
January 31st, 2009 at 12:32 amso clueless… classic case of “i got mine…”
Breaking Down Stimulus Bill’s Opposition
CBS Evening News: With Plenty Of Spending Add-Ons, Obama’s Stimulus Bill Comes Under Scrutiny
(CBS) The Republicans’ biggest complaint about the stimulus bill is that it gives the Democrats an excuse to make government bigger. CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports that the examples are not hard to find.
If you are one of those taxpayers that doesn’t want to spend $25 million on trails for ATVs, or $150 million for agricultural repairs (like beehives after a storm), then you’ll understand why no Republicans supported the stimulus in the House — and why most Republicans are trashing it in the Senate.
“This is about spending money we don’t have for things we don’t need,” said Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
Despite the President’s lobbying for bipartisan support, Republicans complain their ideas are being ignored. They say the bill is too much “goodie bag” and not enough “stimulus.”
It includes $650 million to help people switch their old TV signals to digital and $335 million to prevent sexually transmitted disease – a program House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., defends because disease education creates jobs, too.
As Pelosi said on The Early Show: “And we have jobs across the board, not just for construction workers.”
But Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., says almost one-fourth of the one-time stimulus will never, ever get cut. Fifteen billion dollars for Pell grants to help young students with college, and $26 billion for special education. Maybe that’s all worthwhile, Cantor says. It’s just not temporary.
“How much of this gets rolled back in two years?” Andrews asked.
“That’s the problem. Every time a new program starts in Washington, it’s very, very difficult to stop it,” Cantor said.
January 31st, 2009 at 12:41 am[...]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/30/eveningnews/main4765261.shtml
OBAMA TO REPUBLICANS: ‘just tell me what you want, I’ll get it done – its the new way’
HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO OBAMA: F-U, and your stinkin’ little Americans too!
SENATE REPUBLICANS TO OBAMA: F-U, and your stinkin’ little Americans too!
only thing left to know: did Obama learn anything?
January 31st, 2009 at 12:52 amOf course they will. I have yet to see ANYTHING in the last 4-5 years (since I have really been paying attention), that suggest that Republicans care, at all, about this country.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:00 am15 lawmakers to join Obama to watch Super Bowl
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gadWtkqVjdCwOwyWD7-p-p041noQD961RMI00
interesting list…
but i don’t think even the raygun reference will help…
Upton, R-Mich., compared Obama’s overtures to Republicans to former President Ronald Reagan’s courting of congressional Democrats during the 1980s.
“I see this Sunday as precisely what Reagan did and his relationship with Tip O’Neill,” Upton said. “The issues of today — we can’t afford another four years like the last eight. I want him to succeed and I want to turn this country around so we have to work together,” Upton said.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:14 amBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
And Harry Reid needs to give them the phone book and say have at it. Then the Democrats need to hold a news conference every morning and tell the public how many more people in this country lost their jobs that day.
Hold a news conference every day? Heh…the pussy Democrats in Congress won’t do jack sh*t.
OTOH, I can see Obama doing just that.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:29 amThink Reid for once would have the balls to allow a full blown filibuster for all to see… a filibuster brought on by the goppers obstructing the business of the people getting their life back together?
Last fall the number of gopper filibusters was around 80… making them the most obstructive in history. Still, I wonder how many in the public really understands what a filibuster is as Reid always folds and it never gets any media attention… just some goppers saying: see… the dems are in charge and nothing gets done.
Reid… if the goppers want to filibuster, then bring it on and in time it will bring truth to the public and ratings for the media.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:43 amYep, keep on being idiots repugs. You guys had nothing to say when chimpy gave billions away without accountability. wall street cried bankrupt and doom and the money came pouring in. What form did these crooks fill out? I remember the time when bills took months and years to pass.
Keep hating the people repugs.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:51 amEverything repugs touch backfires.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:57 amOh gawd, steele is a crazy sob. drill baby drill that whole thing was sad.
And limpydic keep on spewing your racist terrorist threats.
January 31st, 2009 at 3:35 amI think the British had a very popular comedy with this sort of thing.
January 31st, 2009 at 7:14 amPlease, don’t fightit, let it pass! We all need new grass for the National Mall, and more contraceptives, and of course ATV trails need more maintenance!
Change we can believe in! It’s here, get set, get ready to pay!
January 31st, 2009 at 7:16 amWhy the republicans hate America?
January 31st, 2009 at 7:27 amTheir version of a stimulus package is,,,,,,,,,,, give the top 400 richest in the land a big tax-cut and evry thing will be just dandy.
Under the BAD administration those 400 doubled their money; do to all the tax-cut.
And now they want to filibuster? Shame on you Un-American. It doesn’t mean anything to you that there are Millions UN employed, as long that you get to filibuster the stimulus bill.
I am not happy with this stimulus package either these concession to repigs have to go Tax breaks help nothing . It’s like GWB and Greenspan-Bernanke interest rate cuts . Now no interest rates no money movement no savings on and on. We won for christ’s sake put it where the sun don’t shine
January 31st, 2009 at 10:02 amWhat a bunch of loses and crybabies the REICH is……..and make sure you bring cots to sleep on and coffe cans to piss in while you try to filibuster the stim package and America ends up a 3rd world country Whiney ,cryee, spit up losers and school yard tactics is all they have got left and it could finish this county off and they don`t care.Get some BRASS Harry so all f America can see how much the REICH hates any one that isn`t white, wealthy and REICH, and most of America is every color,middle class and working class or poor and definately progressive.They have`nt the guts for a filibuster.
January 31st, 2009 at 10:16 amColbert’s proposal is the best, if Republicans had principles, they would refuse to allow any stimulus funds to be spent in their congressional district. Oddly, I don’t think that’s going to happen.
January 31st, 2009 at 10:59 amSurprised the Republicans will filibuster – seems to me like the better strategy would be to not filibuster, let the bill pass and then have the Democrats own the whole thing. Then, if it succeeds, they lose – but they wouldn’t have gained anything from the passage. But if it fails, then the Dems own it.
This filibuster will be the equivalent of shutting down the government – leaves them open for a huge backlash.
January 31st, 2009 at 11:07 amI wonder if the republicans are just following their party leader Lush Rimbaugh’s advice?
January 31st, 2009 at 11:48 amThe republicans must bring down President Barack Obama and the democratic party in order to gain back the majority and the presidency so that they can finish destroying the country.
January 31st, 2009 at 11:50 amA little sample from the Rude Pundit regarding President Obama and the republicans:
“Obama better know a simple fact: they phucking hate him. Right now, Obama represents the fact that everything they believed was a complete failure. For making that clear to the American people, they phucking despise him. They hate his majority, they hate his coattails, they hate that all over the country people are supporting his ideas. Republicans have nothing right now, which means they have nothing to lose by trying to drag Obama into their pit of sh*t. They’ll smile and say it was a good conversation, but they’re waiting in the back halls of the Capitol to phuckin’ shiv Obama and laugh while he bleeds. And try to force Americans back into their crooked arms.
Link to full article “1/28/09 Regarding Motherphuckers (Republican Edition) http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
January 31st, 2009 at 11:57 amBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
I’m not so sure about that. It will all depend on whether or not he wants to be unemployed in 2010. I understand that he is not expected to win re-election…
Maybe. But I wouldn’t put it past the R’s to have some well-heeled friends offer him a cushy corporate, legal or lobbying job for 2010. No quid-pro-quo, just let him know that his employment application would be welcome.
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sectionop92 Says:
Not if you scribble “Surge” all over it.
Rename it the “defense of patriotism, women, babies and apple pie act” and they’ll be all over it. Eedjits every one.
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sectionop92 Says:
In that case, the minorities who work and handle money on Wall St. will be at fault for it.
They’re already blaming uppity minorities who had the gall to think they got to own a house. The economy would have been just fine if they would know their place.
/Republican
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telestai2 Says:
SAD? I’m already stocking up on chips and salsa, Coors, and Buffalo wings for the party watching C-Span!
That’s how you know you’re a lefty news junkie. While everybody else is getting ready to watch the Super Bowl…
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barfly Says:
The silence from Joe Leiberman on this issue is startling.
Not. He hasn’t said anything about anything since he got let off the hook. That was problably the deal.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:53 pmProtest and boycott the corporate entities that these republican senators represent. They certainly have no concerns for their constituencies or the nation as a whole.
January 31st, 2009 at 7:09 pmBetter yet, when the Democrats surpass their 60 seat majority, introduce legislation to outlaw the republican party once and for all. It’s 40 years past time for that action. The Democrats have a duty and an obligation to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign AND domestic.
So keep your friends close and your enemies six feet beneath you.
Put the RepubliCons in prison for complicity to the Criminal Bush’s Treason and War Crimes. As long as the criminals run free, you will not restore America.
January 31st, 2009 at 7:19 pmCall it the Grand Old Southern Rump Party. It’ll be a joy to see the nuclear option exercised on these obstructionist fools to do the work of the people. What a bunch of patriots we have here: sink the country entirely and hope to parlay collapse into re-election.
January 31st, 2009 at 7:46 pmTP, please remove my post. I should have replied in a mature manner but did not. My apologies to my fellow poster for my low brow rant.
January 31st, 2009 at 11:05 pmjarjarbush Says:
Better yet, when the Democrats surpass their 60 seat majority, introduce legislation to outlaw the republican party once and for all.
That’s not Democracy. That’s really, really un-American.
Besides, they’d just come back under a different party name, or infiltrate the Democratic party, or whatever. “You can’t fix stupid” applies to legislation as well.
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suzysmom Says:
I think the filibuster will not happen because of liberal RINOS like Snowe and Collins from Maine will vote N and therefore no filibuster
I agree. Even if McConnell was lying and intended secretly to push for a filibuster, he probably couldn’t get it in the Senate.
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suzysmom Says:
…that will create about 100K new jobs and give money to ACORN AND ABORTIONISTS
That’s all made-up talk. You so crazy.
January 31st, 2009 at 11:33 pmThe Republicans ALREADY own the recession. If they filibuster, they will own the depression as well.
February 1st, 2009 at 1:59 amAs they say in “real America”,
them gop fellers don’t know whether to sh*t or go blind.
poor lil fellers.
February 1st, 2009 at 2:19 amTo all the Democrats and “sane Republicans, we need to remain focused and vigilant!
We have a nation to build and its called The United States of America.
February 1st, 2009 at 3:01 amYES WE CAN!!
suzysmom Says:
According to Senate rules, the only way a filibuster in progress can be broken is if a super-majority of three-fifths of the Senate (60 Senators when all 100 seats are filled) vote to file cloture on the bill in question and bring it to the floor for debate. (Cloture is a parliamentary term, meaning to end debate by calling for a vote.)
I think the filibuster will not happen because of liberal RINOS like Snowe and Collins from Maine will vote N and therefore no filibuster
BUt with 99% of the Senate Rs and all of the House Rs voting NO,…….you liberal socialists alinskyites OWN THIS PACKAGE that will create about 100K new jobs and give money to ACORN AND ABORTIONISTS
HERE IS YOUR NEW COUTNRY,THE NEW UNITED SOVIET STATES OF AMERICA>
THANKS FOR DESTROYING MY COUNTRY
January 31st, 2009 at 10:16 pm
suzysmom,
You are pathetically ignorant. You truly are. And you prove this by bringing up that tired, debunked, lie put forth by the GOP that tis stimulus package includes money specifically for ACORN. I bet you don’t even know what ACORN stands for, let alone what they do. You’re just parroting talking points, just like the good little demented gooper you are.
You’re desperate. You know your party’s ideas are destructive, but you want to do them anyway, so you lash out and lie about what the Dems are doing.
If you don’t like what we have to say, fine, but you should appreciate that if I went to a site like RedState or FreeRepublic (home of insane conservatives like you) and I posted the kinds of things there that you posted about me and my wife, I would have been banned by the second comment, if not he first. But you are free to say shit like that here and are more likely to get away with it. But demented conservative minds like yours can’t understand that important distinction.
I have called you offensive and ignorant, and I will continue to do so as long as TP (foolishly) allows you to post your hate-filled comments here. You’re worried about the destruction of our country? Then why do you support the Republican Party, which could not possibly care less about you. (You have already admitted that you are not among the super rich.) In fact, you should be their enemy, if you really are a college professor, as you claim.
February 1st, 2009 at 10:48 amLet them filibuster. Publish the following each day:
GOP FILIBUSTER
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Couldn’t take time to read every post, packing to go
live in a national forest (not kidding) and I suggest
everyone come up with a way to live this mess out for
the next year or two. I honestly am going to camp in
a national forest for two weeks – time limit – and
then another one close by for 2 more until next month
when I can start a business on the wireless netbook I
am about to purchase. Or Blackberry or something.
Feel free to email me at cherokeerose@yahoo.com with
suggestions on how to be online with no telephone line.
I’m buying a small generator for electricity. In case
I need it.
For the record, I have contacted both my senators,
Harry Reid and the other one and asked them to vote
for the stimulus bill. Now we’ll see.
Meanwhile, back at the national forest…the ones I’m
going to are in southwest NM and there is cheap land
for sale in east AZ, around Show Low. Back to the
land, comrades. And keep it simple. All of it.
I have yet to hear those “banned by the Repukes” words
February 1st, 2009 at 5:14 pm“class war” but that is what it looks like to me. Re-
publicans, as far as I can see, care nothing for anyone
not white, rich and male. Let’s us progressives stick
together, shall we? BRING ON 2010!
cherokeerose Says:
I honestly am going to camp in a national forest for two weeks – time limit – and then another one close by for 2 more until next month when I can start a business on the wireless netbook I am about to purchase. Or Blackberry or something.
You’re in your early 20’s, aren’t you? I can tell. I remember thinking that plans like that were sure to work out great, once upon a time… Have fun and good luck.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:52 amBelow this post is an example of why this country is in dire straights, their voting for one of the most incompetent President the country has ever had to suffer through, it’s not enough that he has to post his ignorance, its incredible that he practices it every time he post’s “his ignorance”.
There really is no salutation to eradicate him from here so he can practice his ignorance while all the rest of you just talk around him.
NoBama44 Says:
Please, don’t fightit, let it pass! We all need new grass for the National Mall, and more contraceptives, and of course ATV trails need more maintenance!
Change we can believe in! It’s here, get set, get ready to pay!
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:59 amWayne A. Schneider Says:
This poster is no professor, he’s a Petri dish puke cloned to be a mindless and a vacuous idiot. They seem to have perfected the model to the point that it is self sufficient, and self reliant on its abilities to survive in any kind of situation.
When it needs nutreints it tunes into the Drug Crazed limpbaugh, to fat to get a natural rise, it needs inducements,tincture of Vicodin seems to promote growth and froth.
Or they can tune into the Bull OlieLY show for training on rants and obfusicating Bull S ! ht
For the ones that are inclined towards toe tapping there’s the Larry Craig Institute of Perpetual Airport Stall Haunting, Its something they are particularly good at. see the funny paper’s for clairification.
Or they’ll tune into the Hannity Happy loon hour to refresh their abilities to flap their lips, wiggle their large floppy ears and make weird noises, like an ass does when its farting from to much consumption, hmmmm perhaps I have hit on something here, the petri dish ass full of nutrients proceeds to omit gaseous comments all over these forums.
Professor of what? Ignorance!
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:32 amFascists flourish during Depressions.
The Rethugs want it to get worse.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm