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Topic: Dems, GOP fight brewing
over curbing filibusters |
Dems, GOP fight brewing
over curbing filibusters
Associated Press, by Staff
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Original Article
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Posted By:JoniTx, 11/11/2012 10:01:54 AM
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| WASHINGTON — A brewing and potentially bitter fight over Democratic efforts to curb filibusters is threatening to inflame partisan tensions in the Senate, even as President Barack Obama and Republicans explore whether they can compromise on top tier issues such as debt reduction and taxes. A potential showdown vote to limit Senate filibusters would not come until January. Democrats are threatening to resort to a seldom-used procedure that could let them change the rules without GOP support, all but inviting Republican retaliation. That fight is looming as the newly re-elected Obama and GOP leaders prepare to use the lame-duck session
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Not your typical New Yorker, 11/11/2012 10:29:19 AM (No. 9006957)
The dems trying to lock down the country in order to finish us off.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jansgraphix, 11/11/2012 10:29:38 AM (No. 9006959)
GOP + fight in the same sentence? With Boehner in charge? HA!! Thats a hoot.
Nothing to see here folks... move along.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
US Veteran, 11/11/2012 10:30:41 AM (No. 9006961)
Boehner is a sniveling coward.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/11/2012 10:42:20 AM (No. 9006993)
The GOP fight? When will that happen? The GOP has no Schumer´s, union, or minority thugs to intimidate anyone.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
M2, 11/11/2012 10:44:15 AM (No. 9007003)
This is a howler:
...the dispute could produce sour partisan feelings that might hinder cooperation on legislation when the new Congress begins work in January.
"..sour feelings"? Ya think? Of course there will be "sour feelings" -- that´s now new: When one Party wants to cut the other Party out of negotiations and when it pretends to listen and be bi-partisan, sour feelings is the least that will ensue.
I hope the sour feelings blossom into outright contempt, to be candid. And I hope, probably beyond hope, that Republicans will publicly stand up and call Ms. Jarret, Mr. Obama, Ms. Waters, Mr. Sanders and all the other communists in our governments about what their true agenda is. Get it on the record, televise it, get spies into meetings. Get the word out.
Too many American voters on both sides don´t understand the dire situation we are in. Changing filibuster rules, which is typical of Democrats, would cripple our ability to stymie creeping communism.
It cannot be allowed. We´re Greece-bound and somewhere along the line, courage will be needed. The GOP has not been reliably courageous except for the newer crop of
Tea Party Republicans.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
M2, 11/11/2012 10:45:19 AM (No. 9007007)
Ignore typos and grammatical errors above. I do know better.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
michellewsc2, 11/11/2012 10:53:24 AM (No. 9007021)
"GOP + fight in the same sentence?"
RE: #2 - Exactly! This is going to end up like the healthcare fight...the Dem´s will just lock the GOP out...and they´ll stand before cameras and feign indignity while they´re dropping their collective pants and bending over -- thank you sir may I have another.
Bonner should be renamed: Speaker Ben Dover
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hobbiest, 11/11/2012 11:31:25 AM (No. 9007104)
The Democrats need a little reminder. There will be 20 Democrat Senators up for reelection in 2014, including those in Arkanasa, Lousiana, South Dakota and North Carolina. Of the 13 Republicans only one is from a blue state-Maine. Other Democrats include a couple of dinosuars in Frank Lautenberg and Jay Rockefeller. The sixth year of an administration is usually not kind for the party holding the White House.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Freeloader, 11/11/2012 11:42:46 AM (No. 9007130)
It´s simply amazing how one little leftist gangster, from a state with only six electoral votes, can tie up the entire United States Congress!.......Those in favor of closing up the shop, sending everybody home without pay until after January, 2013, thereby saving Uncle Sugar a few billion, signify by raising your right hand!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Refried, 11/11/2012 12:09:51 PM (No. 9007182)
Some of you need to read the entire article or get a book on the basics of the American government.
Boehner is the speaker of the House of Representatives.
The article is about the US Senate where filibustering is allowed.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
A Balrog of Morgoth, 11/11/2012 12:28:10 PM (No. 9007230)
The parallels to 2004-2005 grow apace.
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