If the GOP wants to filibuster the healthcare bill in the Senate, MAKE THEM DO IT!

Ken Burch

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Thu Aug-20-09 02:41 PM
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If the GOP wants to filibuster the healthcare bill in the Senate, MAKE THEM DO IT!

Enough of this "nothing goes to the floor unless we know we can get cloture" shit. Make them vote to keep the filibuster going over and over. Make it a roll call over and over. Give them no cover. Make them eat it. Make them wear it. Grow a pair, wouldya Harry?

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rurallib

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Thu Aug-20-09 02:45 PM
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1. 1 rule - they have to wear NASCAR style garb advertising their owners.

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Ken Burch

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Thu Aug-20-09 02:47 PM
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3. Hell Yeah, I'm down with that!

n/t.

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The Magistrate

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Thu Aug-20-09 02:47 PM
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2. Hear Hear, Sir! Make The Buggers Stand Up And Rant And Sweat....

Edited on Thu Aug-20-09 02:47 PM by The Magistrate

"We march on a road of bones."

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DefenseLawyer

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Thu Aug-20-09 02:50 PM
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4. More importantly, make the DEMOCRATS truly blocking reform stand up with them.

Senator Kennedy's situation aside, it is only Democrats that can successfully filibuster. The Republicans talk a good game, but they are irrelevant.

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Ken Burch

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Thu Aug-20-09 03:11 PM
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5. That's true. Hang it on Lieberman and Spector for all it's worth

Especially Spector, since he's coming up for reelection in 2010 and Sestak can beat him in the primary. And especially since Reid and Schumer will be pressuring everyone to let Spector have the nom.

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DefenseLawyer

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Thu Aug-20-09 03:24 PM
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8. Specter has said he is for the public option

I don't think he could risk siding with the Republicans on a filibuster. I would think Lieberman, since his vote is no longer necessary to retain leadership, and since he isn't really a Democrat anymore, could be pressured by the loss of seniority to stay in line. I would be more concerned with Baucus, Conrad, Landrieu, Nelson and Lincoln.

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BlueIdaho

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Thu Aug-20-09 03:14 PM
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6. Oh Hell Yes!

Where or where is the downside to this? Hold up all business in the senate until meaningful health care reform passes. No other votes until we have a bill signed into law.

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ProSense

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Thu Aug-20-09 03:18 PM
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7. Not unless the Dems are going to push back.

Having the Repubs kill the bill by filibuster is not an option.

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Ken Burch

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Thu Aug-20-09 03:35 PM
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9. Pushing the Dems is part of the objective of this strategy

by making everything a roll call vote, you force them to make it clear whose side they are on.

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AlinPA

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Thu Aug-20-09 03:39 PM
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10. It will not happen. Despite what Harry Reid said a few days ago, he does not have the courage to

try for a cloture vote on health care. Unless all the Democrats who are against Obama on health care state that they will vote for cloture, he won't try. You don't want to put anyone on the spot, you know.

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burning rain

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Thu Aug-20-09 03:57 PM
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11. Won't happen.

Senators are too self-important to work that much, and given the decrepitude of so many of them, they'd be keeling over left and right if they had to.

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iceman66

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Thu Aug-20-09 04:27 PM
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12. Damn right!

Not just on health care, on EVERYTHING.

By allowing the mere 'threat' of a filibuster hold up important legislation, spineless Harry Reid is essentially letting the Repugs run the Senate with only 40 votes.

I do not understand why this is such a difficult concept!

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BattyDem

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Thu Aug-20-09 08:17 PM
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13. A REAL filibuster ... none of this "filibuster-in-name-only" crap

Make them stand there and talk for hours. Days, if necessary. Let them stand there for the whole country to see. While they're doing that, Dems should blanket the airwaves with a consistent message: the GOP doesn't want Americans to have affordable health care.

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rocktivity

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Thu Aug-20-09 08:48 PM
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14. Rachel Maddow says they want a 75 to 80-vote majority

Can't imagine how they'd come up with such a ridiculous idea...

:evilgrin:
rocktivity

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bermudat

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Thu Aug-20-09 09:32 PM
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15. Why the fear of filibustering?

Make the repugnantcans go to the mattresses and filibuster. Let the entire

country see how vapid they are. Seems like the Dems will not go down in defeat

for the principal of an idea, or for the benefit of their base.

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opihimoimoi

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Thu Aug-20-09 10:00 PM
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16. Pres Obama got um by the nuts...no wiggle room now..too many clips of Nutters

exposing Brown Shirt Shit complete with "Lawful Guns" near the President...of the UNITED STATES....Bully Puff Move.

The Whacko's think they won? Think again.

Their record sucks:

They simply tell us anything expedient....

They have OVERSPENT THEIR CREDIBILTY CAPITAL down to Drowning Levels of near ZERO.....

Do ya believe Ensign, Sanford, Craig, Foley, OReally, Hannity? Whad about Rush? Only ditto heads suck for his shit.

P Obbama got um in a corner.....The Pubs going into overdrive with Intimidation/BS, their last/only ploy

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