I would love to see him in prison.

1,000,000,000,000,000,etc. %

That would be the section of China that supports the U.S.

Destroy the Filibuster. You already destroyed America.

so the health of Kentuckians can improve and our country can move forward.

McConnell has been senator from Kentucky for 36 years. He has failed to uplift his state. He is the leader of the Senate, and Kentucky is leading in in poverty-one of the 10 most impoverished states.

Democrats who want us to reach out to white Trump voters need to start being more aggressive about the message. Poor states are mainly poor because they vote for McConnell's and Rands.

Incidentally McConnell's first wife is the feminist scholar, Sherrill Redmon. If only she had had the political career.

but, I would much rather the Democrats go out fighting than just meekly rolling over again and again

... it will be nice to not have the Party of No to worry about, dragging things down like an anchor with the filibuster.

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For something big, go down fighting . Give the rat fuckers a taste of their own bile.

. . . and every psychopathic ruling the putrid rat makes - FOREVER.

Keep trying to blame it on us, on Obama, on Reid.

Man up, blamer guys...most of them are in the GOP Senate...if you change the rules, YOU are the ones who fucked it up, not us.

Dems need to get out there and make that clear. Repubs were on every channel on Sunday blaming Dems, if the rules are changed.

10 bucks he cries like a baby and will want to return to the "days of civility", plus begs for forgiveness of him being an asshole.

I'm all for that...but after Dems invoke the 40 year rule of wandering the desert to weed out these partisan hacks, then return to the filibuster.

Along with the rest of the House and Senate that the Koch Bros bought and paid for.

...which gets back to why we should oppose Gorcuch. He didn't make much clear, but he did make it clear, he's for Citizens United.

You know there has to be one somewhere. Donnie wouldn't have nominated him without his russian handler telling him to.

Russo- Fascist Vermin.

Turtle McTurtleface's nuclear option is deader than a Tyson chicken. With sage dressing on the side!!!

When it swings back to us again (and looking more and more like that will be sooner than later), they are the ones who obstruct everything with the filibuster. Hell they were the first ones to escalate the use of it back in the 70's, and every time the next Democratic Party wave came in and just tried to keep the status, the next wave of Republican minority would come in and double the use of it. Hell, just look at this chart, and it doesn't even capture the biggest years of 2013-2016!



Looks to me like they have a hell of a lot more to lose by doing away with it than we do.

Maybe next round we'll be able to just go ahead.. dump the rumpcare, and put in single payer right out of the starting gate without having to kiss the asses of DINO's, and the Lieberman's out there to do so.

republicans plan on staying in power forever? They will need judges to do it.

We must filibuster, no question. If he nukes it, so be it, but it's chilling what they're thinking and maybe even planning.

they need to tell you to shove it up your ass because if you do it then when control swings back we "will" remember it and you and your party are in for a rude awakening.

FILIBUSTER!

off of a short pier. Take your nuclear option and shove it where the sun don't shine.

when we take it as it was meant to be, stealing our democracy, then and only then will we get serious.

McConnell was deemed "too racist" to serve in the REAGAN administration

the REAGAN administration.

Pain and suffering is all that Mitch and his Republic0n hoodlums know. He wanted to make Obama a one term president, and he/they didn't care how much pain that they inflicked on the country or American citizens to make it happen.

I.e., to "end debate" (filibuster). That's why Schumer has indicated that he had 41 votes to their (potential) 59 meaning they wouldn't be able to invoke cloture.

Thus the idea of Turtle invoking the nuclear option and calling a vote to change the rule to then install Gorsuch with 51 votes (assuming they have that).

Sorry for my lack of clarity.

The Majority Leader can proclaim that (which the OP indicated). This was as a result of the last rules change in 2013.

(Also noted in my LBN OP - http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141745992)

that says this (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141745992) -

Collins, Murkowski and ? It certainly won't be Graham or McCain. It probably won't be Paul, either. Flake? Heller? The rest of the Repubs are unprincipled and spineless so they will likely do exactly as Turtle commands.

Someone posted in my LBN thread that Graham would probably go along with the nuclear option so I floated Hatch (only because he has been in there so long despite having become a born-again teabagger when Lee ousted Bennett in his state).

McCain might vote against the rules change though. Flake seems to be more fiscal-focused and is still junior in the Senate so I don't think he'll buck Turtle. Paul is a lot of talk and little action and probably won't buck Turtle either (who is his KY colleague too).

On Thursday, they will not formally change the rules, they will instead set a precedent that where the rule says 60 votes, it actually means 51.

If McConnell goes nuclear, they stop pretending this is a democracy. The dictatorship officially begins.