With filibusters, Senate GOP thinks ‘it’s more important that Democrats, not Republicans, be consistent.’
With filibusters, Senate GOP thinks ‘it’s more important that Democrats, not Republicans, be consistent.’
Earlier this month, all 41 Senate Republicans sent a letter to the White House, threatening to filibuster if President Obama didn’t consult with them on judicial nominees. As ThinkProgress noted, the filibuster threat was a stunning reversal from the GOP’s claims during the Bush administration that filibustering judicial nominees was unfair and unconstitutional. The Washington Times reports today that the Senate GOP believes it’s “more important that Democrats, not Republicans, be consistent” on the issue:
It also required that some senators go back on their previous positions, but Republicans said it’s more important that Democrats, not Republicans, be consistent.
“We’re not asking Leahy to follow the Hatch position; we’re asking Leahy to follow the Leahy rule,” said a senior Republican Senate official involved with judicial nominations. “Senator Hatch isn’t chairman now, and he wasn’t chairman for the last couple Congresses.”
Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), tells the Times that unlike Senate Republicans, Reid plans to be consistent in his position. “I can’t imagine Senator Reid would ever resort to the illegitimate tactic called the ‘nuclear option’ that the GOP turned to four years ago,” said Manley.
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It’s MUCH more important for Repuglycans to be hypocrites, than, well, pretty much anything else.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:26 pmOnce again, the Republicans demonstrate that their sole concern is only in winning.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:30 pmWill these old white dudes ever be happy? First they are against filibuters.(When they were in power of course.) Now they are all for them. My, My.. how the tide has changed. Remember when Tom (the hammer) Delay would practically frog-march Democrats out the door when he was in power? I like the Repugs exactly where they are. Diminished and powerless.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:31 pmLogic has never been a GOP strong point.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:32 pmSince when has the GOP ever been consistent , except when it comes to making stupid statements and decisions ?
March 17th, 2009 at 12:40 pmWhat happened to:
“Elections have consequences”
“Up Or Down Vote”
“Nuclear Option”
?????
Oh Drat!!! Republicursed again!
March 17th, 2009 at 12:42 pmI say NUKE THEM ALL.
Republicans HATE America’s way of life.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:44 pmIt looks like eight years of total devastation just wasn’t enough.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:45 pmThey must have had plans to take down the entire planet, so this business of them not being in complete control is a little, unsettling.
ectoendomezo Says:
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one becoming concerned about the right. They spew outright lies, utilize no logic whatsoever, and have no compunction about any of it. I’m not saying Democrats are going to be our saviors – they’re politicians and in it for themselves like the rest of them. But seriously – the hate the right has been spewing, the utter panic, the lies, and intolerance… Am I just being paranoid here?
March 17th, 2009 at 12:46 pmThe past few weeks has been an education in the differences between the two parties. I realize the Republicans are doing what I wanted the Democrats to do for the eight years under Bush BUT it seems clear that what I hoped for then would have been the wrong course. Republicans are digging a deep grave, deep enough to find climbing out is going to be difficult.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:47 pmLetter back to GOP: TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY! GET USED TO IT!
March 17th, 2009 at 12:47 pmMethinks the White House should send sternly worded letters to the Republicants who only want to interrupt progress and healing.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:48 pmRIP GOP. The Repukitude continues to dig it’s own grave – shovelfull by shovelfull. They’ll learn soon when they realize that they’re SOL.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:48 pmWhat, they can’t just get an up or down vote?
March 17th, 2009 at 12:48 pmThe Republicant’s are nothing but consistent. Consistently hypocritical.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:48 pmTime to patronize some R’s.
Maybe the President should send some sack lunches over to the R treehouse – a little pbj, some cheetos, and a juice box.
Pat those little rascals on the head, tousle their hair, and suggest they head down to the park on K St. and look for some friends to play with.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:49 pmrepublicans hate fact Says:
Flagged. Giddoutta here, phony.
March 17th, 2009 at 12:54 pmI gotta say, I think it’s healthy for the GOP to acknowledge the truth. Even if that truth is that “Republicans said it’s more important that Democrats, not Republicans, be consistent.” it’s an important place to start healing the ravages of IOKIYAR.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:00 pmin the words of a former republican leader
I want to see the republicans go thru with a filibuster. I want to see them on the floor of congress for hours on end. It will help drive home the point of how pathetic their previous desire for the “Nuclear Option” was and how lost they truly are.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:00 pmI really wish that the GOP’s were going to attempt to be bipartisan. I think that Americans are truely sick of these games they play and want to see some results that will be good for the country. I personally would like to see global poverty to be addressed, there are 963 million people (throughout the world mind you) that go to sleep hungry every night and 25,000 die every day from hunger and malnutrition according to the borgen project(www.borgenproject.org). There are 191 countries, including the U.S., that created the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 and I would like to see them fulfilled. Have we really become that selfish that we think that we need the money more than those 963 million? There are 980 million that live on less than $1 per day. Think of only getting to eat a McDonalds hamburger or only getting french fries…… I know I couldn’t survive on that much food each day. I’d probably want to eat my arm or paper or some weird random thing to cope with the hunger. I think it’s time to make a difference in the world and to make America the proud nation that we used to be.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:01 pmfake RHF – step away from the blog. you’re flagged, and will get flagged until you’re gone.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:03 pmOT What does “flagged: mean?
March 17th, 2009 at 1:04 pmRe: “’I can’t imagine Senator Reid would ever resort to the illegitimate tactic called the ‘nuclear option’ that the GOP turned to four years ago,’”
And that’s why Reid should be replaced. Today.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:09 pmit means you click “report abuse” and the site monitors then know that person should be blocked, banned and removed.
Takes a little while.
I have a feeling, since this is over and over, that all Karl Rove’s butt boys got the same instructions and this is multiple perople with different IPs putting the same post and using the same fake name.
We know it is not OUR republicans hate facts!
Unfortunately, they wouldrather try to derail our discussion than step up and help the country.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:11 pmI can’t imagine speding a day hanging around some Righty blog doing what these guys do…sure, it’d be fun inciting anger and unrest once or twice, but after that it’s like a grownup with a “pulling wings off flies” fetish.
Has to be a sign of some pretty real personality disorder.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:15 pmectoendomezo Says:
I am truly dreading the potential for Cold Civil War to turn HOT…these Repugs are..ON the Brink…they are PANICKING..will say..or Do..anything..and that is worrisome..because come JULY..when it is 110 degrees in much of the lower 48..and people are BROKE..desperate…freaked out..AND..BOILING IN THEIR OWN JUICES…watch out!
I too am becoming concerned. When we have right wingers saying things like “we have to stop Obama at all costs”, or Steele saying “strap it on” or Glenn Beck trying to form posses to take on the Democrats, I really do fear that violence is going to erupt. The right wing, including Limbaugh and Hannity, are appealing to the skinheads and the likes of Timothy McVeigh. Hannity actually had a poll on his site as to how his readers thought they should overthrow the government.
Someone is going to get hurt or killed because of their rhetoric.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:16 pmRepugs:
March 17th, 2009 at 1:22 pmHey you guys — you said you would play by our rules, and you can’t change now. We, on the other hand, are bastards, make up our rules as we go along, strangle you with them, and if you don’t like it, we take the ball and go home. It’s not our fault you want to play fair – we never did play fair, we never claimed we would. So there!
Nice try asshat. Archie fails again. His message is so sorry and pathetic he has to imitate other members. “sock puppet” is one of his sorry, tired catch phrases. u really are a piece of dogsh&t, neocon asslicker.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pmThis one – this sicko who is stalking RHF – is an example of one we’ll see in the news in the future, having shot up a furniture store that fired him, or some such violent righty dysfunction, because he is literally in-sane – un-fit to participate in civil society – warped – malformed and maladjusted – a tragic waste of a human life.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:25 pm#43 is a snark supposed to be in the words of repugs – not addrssed to repugs.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:27 pmI guess this implies that Reid will also be consistent in his position that the THREAT of a Republican fillibuster is better than an actual fillibuster.
Heavy, heavy sigh.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:27 pmbuhbye namejackingimposterracisttroll
March 17th, 2009 at 1:29 pmPay close attention to our clone troll’s tag and flag the correct one. He’s trying to get us to flag the real republicans hate facts, rather than the republicans hate fact.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:34 pmTheresa,
March 17th, 2009 at 1:39 pm[shhh, it thinks it is fooling us]
Theresa Says
March 17th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Pay close attention to our clone troll’s tag and flag the correct one. He’s trying to get us to flag the real republicans hate facts, rather than the republicans hate fact.
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I’m wondering if our namejacking troll is Exley, trying to resurrect an old war? If so, his posturing under this name shows that not only is he wildly off-topic, irrelevant, and generally a pain in the a$$, but he’s a coward as well.
Come to think of it, this troll is a coward no matter who he is. Hopefully, the TP clean-up crew will be along shortly.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:43 pmOh, is the cowardly name-jacking troll Archie B? I’ve missed telling him to shut up in every thread he appears. It’s cathartic.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:44 pmTranslation: “Do as we say, not as we do.”
March 17th, 2009 at 1:46 pmI have emailed TP regarding the namejacking A$$hat.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:47 pmrepublicans hate fact Says: “I can’t come up with my own screen name, so I will try to make someone else look bad by posting under a name that resembles theirs.
Hmmmmm…. kind of proves this whole thread’s point, dontcha think? The repugs whine that THEY don’t have to be true to their principles or their words, but the other guys should be true to what the repugs view as their (the other guy’s) principles and words.
Analgous to card cheats — who find no issue with their own dishonesty at the table, but when OTHERS at the table play by the same ‘rules’ they can’t stand it. And we call THAT hypocricy.
I think that the dems SHOULD ‘play’ by the rules the repugs have played by — nuclear option and all.
And it is not true to say that the dems are ‘no better’ — there is a difference, even if both parties have more than their share of politicans who are NOT serving the people. But the repugs are like gangbangers, who will shoot randomly in the street for fun, while the dems are more like the old mafia, who selected their targets and took aim at their intended victims, and always with a purpose. If given the choice of the two, I’d rather the mob over the gangbangers — much less likely to get hit by stray gunfire.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:48 pmdon’t care, stalker-freak. only you do.
you’ve got a serious problem, and people near you should be on alert.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:55 pmfact hater, care to use any of your own words? So far, the game you are playing is a simple one coming from a simple mind. Man up and show your own stand on how the republicans can now toy with the idea of a filibuster when, just a few short years ago, they were wanting to do away with it.
Or are you showing the same type of knee jerk principles they are.
March 17th, 2009 at 1:58 pmrepublicans hate fact Says:
All rhf’s words honey. Not mine.
Sure thing, Archie.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:01 pmdude – you’re completely obsessed with some guy on a blog. can you not recognize that? take a long look in the mirror, and ask yourself what you are accomplishing.
this is not “healthy” or “stable” behavior for anyone, anywhere, for any reason.
it is the first step toward a “restraining order”, and I’m very sure you know what those are.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:05 pmI’ll let republicans hate facts speak for himself and he’ll be judged accordingly. My question was to you fact hater. Where do you stand?
March 17th, 2009 at 2:08 pmSo Exley, or ArchieB, or RHF namejacker or whatever your handle is today.
You have a point? Honey?
March 17th, 2009 at 2:09 pmActually, it can’t. This is all just jibber-jabber, and you need to understand that. There is no treasure to win or territory to gain – no one to defeat or be defeated by. No one is keeping score, and no one would care if someone did.
You need to take a break from the internet – get outdoors and see the real world – smell a flower, play a game, ride a bike. Talk to the actual people you’ll see out there, feel the breeze on your face – live — and be human.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:09 pmDidn’t our old friend Mighty aphro… used to add the honey’s and sweety to her babble?
March 17th, 2009 at 2:10 pmnamejacker Exley
March 17th, 2009 at 2:14 pmIn the context of THIS thread. WHAT IS YOUR POINT?
other than stalking and cluttering the thread?
y – but MA had way bigger balls than this one does. wouldn’t bother with all the sneakiness. wasn’t completely deranged like this one – at least not then. opiate abuse may have rendered her more paranoid and delusional over the last couple of years.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:14 pmWell said tombaker.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:15 pmhellinabucket Says:
Didn’t our old friend Mighty aphro… used to add the honey’s and sweety to her babble?
True. And the mindless vicious tone also fits. Never had anything to contribute but personal attacks and nasty assertions of “fact.”
March 17th, 2009 at 2:15 pmI don’t think it’s Exley either – he was way too into himself to let his identity get sidelined.
this is more like that recent olby_sucks dude – one of those frantically incoherent types who tries to cling onto a particular poster who they believe they’ve “gotten to”.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:16 pmrepublicans hate fact Says:
Not so with rhf honey.
Y’know this is bordering on stalking. As in “collecting nail clippings” and “driving by your house at 3 AM” stalking.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:17 pmYou’ve never had any honey? poor child. Great tasting on a roll mixed with some butter.
Now back to the thread. Republicans can’t stand on anything if they continually switch their view.
RIP GOP
March 17th, 2009 at 2:19 pmWe get it namejacker stalking troll. You have no balls, you are not a man. Your a wo-man. Whoopty-doo!
WTF is your POINT! or is it that time a month, and you just gotta be a beotch to make yourself feel better?
March 17th, 2009 at 2:20 pmwell there we go. thanks TP mods.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:26 pmthat was one big truckload of crazy, which probably means it will be back in an hour with another handle.
for now, I’m just happy to know there’s a bitterly frustrated righty somewhere cursing to the heavens about how they’re being persecuted.
let’s all switch on our clips of glenn beck crying and crying and make a toast of green beer.
(sh*t, that reminds me, i haven’t started drinking yet today! – don’t want to piss the Irish off, so I’ll brb after making a mini-mart run)
March 17th, 2009 at 2:29 pmSpeaking of the crying Beck. Does Shep Smith still have a job now that he’s found his spine?
March 17th, 2009 at 2:35 pm#2:
March 17th, 2009 at 3:49 pmIt’s not conservatives that are known for rioting. ;)
It’s obvious the GOP doesn’t think at all.
Take Chucky Grassley who obviously didn’t mean AIG execs should end their lives honorably. There’s nothing honorable about Senate GOP’ers.
As for the GOP filibuster bluster, many recall. We also remember “drill here, drill now” while the gas prices behaved inelasticly. A pox on their house.
March 17th, 2009 at 4:16 pmexactly – they just save it for those times votes are being counted
March 17th, 2009 at 4:39 pmSorry, tom, I missed the conservative riot.
March 17th, 2009 at 5:18 pmLuis M Says:
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Oh, is the cowardly name-jacking troll Archie B? I’ve missed telling him to shut up in every thread he appears. It’s cathartic.
— I suppose I sort of miss making him look like a total jackass pussy.
March 17th, 2009 at 5:29 pmut oh, the real rhf is back and Troll Central has only sent in the third team.
I’ll still go get a beer and make some nachos.
March 17th, 2009 at 7:03 pm#74
March 17th, 2009 at 7:19 pmNo. Was there a riot? ;)
# 73:
March 17th, 2009 at 7:27 pmWhere have there been gas chambers in America? Or are you bringing foreign countries into this? Of course there are examples of atrocities across the political spectrum if you want to examine all societies througout history. That has nothing to do with the fact that conservatives aren’t prone to rioting as was suggested in comment #2, right bud? ;)
Excuse me, rhf, but I have to say something to #77 that vertical sinister said.
No, conservatives don’t riot as a rule. They are too busy running and hiding.
March 17th, 2009 at 7:36 pmYeah, hood, decent folks would hang around and join in, right bud?
March 17th, 2009 at 7:44 pmSomething like that, upright left.
March 17th, 2009 at 7:58 pmCan we please have a Republican filibuster on something? I want to see them stand up on the floor of Congress and bloviate. I want CNN and CSPAN carry what they have to say on national TV. Go nuke, kiddies, tell America just where you stand.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:11 pmdownlowrighty, I actually wouldn’t expect you to remember a pack of K St. thugs storming a vote counting center in Florida.
I wouldn’t expect you to remember all the Ohio R’s who went to jail.
And that’s not the least of what-I-wouldn’t-expect-you-to- remember.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:14 pmNow, tom, the reference wasn’t to a few criminals here and there, now was it bud? As difficult as it is for you to admit, there is no precedent to suggest large scale civil unrest (a riot) by conservatives is likely.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:43 pmVelocity of pubbie hot air racing from lying pubbie mouths means pubbie a**es are creating a dangerous vacuum.
Be warned.
March 17th, 2009 at 10:46 pmDamn!! I’m late to the game. not intentionally so — but I MUST respond to
upright left Says:
As difficult as it is for you to admit, there is no precedent to suggest large scale civil unrest (a riot) by conservatives is likely.
Actually, I’d say that there IS — see, while the confederates of the civil war were not all ‘conservatives’, I dare to say that all ‘confederate-minded’ people of today ARE conservatives, thus there IS precedent of massive uprising, that event we called the civil war, and that the modern ‘confederates’ hold onto the notion that “the south will rise again”.
And you will not display any “precedent to suggest large scale civil unrest (a riot) by” progressives: ALL that you can point out is “a few criminals here and there“, and not any kind of ‘movement’ nor precedent of riots and massive civil unrest.
By your standards, there is no civil unrest, and it is not possible unless espoused by an entire movemment (how many peopple have to be involved for it to pass your test, I wonder?).
March 18th, 2009 at 7:00 amSorry, cretin, but your little word game doesn’t cut it. If you want assign conservative and Lib labels to civil war era Americans, you’d have to factor in things like their stand on gay rights. It just doesn’t work. The original comment was about large scale civil unrest among the general population. There is no precedent among conservatives. There are several among liberals. ;)
March 18th, 2009 at 8:01 am