Mitch McConnell and the Art of Dysfunction
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The people busting nuts in the Senate will abolish the Senate the first day that they get 51 seats. If the Democrats are keeping it out of hope that they can use it when they are in the minority, they are not worth to hold the office of Senator.
300 filibuster this year ought to tell you that the minority party will use everything to oppress the majority party, and the leopard does not change his stripes when he is in the majority.
Mr Smith was a fictional movie character -- he never existed and the Senate he was in never existed. It was ENTERTAINMENT.
If the DEMOCRATS will not abolish the Filibuster, then the activists in this country need to elect 51 REPUBLICANS. One way or the other, we are getting rid of that filibuster.
Pick your date Harry Reid: 2013 or 2015. The FILIBUSTER IS DEAD. Get used to majority rules.
It takes 50% plus one vote to get elected Senator. Those ought to be the rules to pass the people's laws. Yeah, losing sucks, so don't lose and you never need to mourn being the minority party that has to DEAL to get what you want some of the time.
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Mitch McConnell was not elected to serve the people. He was elected to serve his paymasters who elected him.
The WORD "FILIBUSTER" means "A mercenary soldier hired to fight battles, including kill or be killed, on behalf of his rich patron who pays him". A filibuster is a hired gun.
A Senator is a hired gun. Senate decisions can mean war or peace and billions of expenses. Senators do kill people -- they put all those predator drones in the sky.
Politics is not for sissies. Put on your big boy pants and face facts. One loser party is vetoing everything the winner party wants to do, using the filibuster as a weapon.
TAKE AWAY THAT WEAPON!
Give McConnell 51 seats and he will not let a democrat minority filibuster him -- he would abolish the filibuster day one first change he gets.
The Republicans will destroy the filibuster the first day that they have 51 seats. The Democrats are keeping the filibuster out of "hope" that the Republicans will not use power to thwart them every way that they can. How silly, if they are doing it now when they are the minority, why wouldn't they use power to thwart the Democrats when they get the barest majority?
Like voter suppression laws, all they need is ONE TERM in power to change the country for 100 years.
We need EVERY empty judge seat filled and that requires speedy confirmations, 10, 20 per day, not 20 per year. We need judges who UNDERSTAND US. We need Obama's team in place, empty seats filled promptly without grandstanding, just like it was most of the last 50 years. Empty cabinet seats are not hostages.
We need all our treaties ratified. We need the nuclear treaties and the global warming treaties done, THIS YEAR not someday. Delays serve the enemies who attempted a hostile overthrow of democracy in 2012.
We need the Republicans to break ranks and deal, trade votes for mutual support like it was not so long ago. They don't have to right now. They can extort and blackmail for what they want and rarely give in. It's only when they KNOW that they are in a weak position do they have to deal.
The filibuster needs to be KILLED, exactly as Mitch McConnell would do if he was in charge this January 1st.