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gulliver

(13,186 posts)
Sun Dec 31, 2017, 06:07 PM Dec 2017

Securing the Byrd Rule from future hacking by Republicans

One of our goals should be to plug the holes in the Byrd Rule that allowed this latest Republican exploit. The rule needs to exclude so-called sunset provisions and to incorporate automatic corrective actions (reinstatement of previous law and repeal of new provisions) in the event assumptions don't pan out. Republican hackers gonna hack otherwise. They just coded around the rule as it sits now.

Republicans are hackers and muggers. Look what they did with the Constitution in the Gorsuch case. That's another "loophole" that only politically criminal-minded jerks would see (or pretend to see). The fact is that we can't have nice, "democratic republic" things any more thanks to Republicans. The founding fathers' architecture is not proof against a dedicated adversary.

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Securing the Byrd Rule from future hacking by Republicans (Original Post) gulliver Dec 2017 OP
Not sure how this is accomplished, current majorities cannot impose their will on future majorities tritsofme Dec 2017 #1

tritsofme

(17,387 posts)
1. Not sure how this is accomplished, current majorities cannot impose their will on future majorities
Sun Dec 31, 2017, 06:27 PM
Dec 2017

If a Democratic majority made changes to the Byrd Rule, a new Republican majority could reverse it.

Forcing them to take that step may be worth it in itself, but the bottom line is that as long they hold power, they will cause this sort of mischief.

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