I wonder how it's going over in freeperland
now that the Dems have finally grown a pair!
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Fascism on the march
1 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:52:06 PM EST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
Fascism on the march
Not really. Just accelerated resolution of the overall cultural problem.
2 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:53:38 PM EST by Robert Teesdale
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To: SoFloFreeper
What passed is almost exactly what Frist and McConnell proposed about 9 years ago. McCain and his hand-picked "Gang of 14" shot down the GOP getting its judges in place.
Another McCain failure for the history books.
3 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:54:27 PM EST by Cboldt
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To: SoFloFreeper
its called running scared last chance saloon, Reid is total loon. Looking forward to it coming back and biting them on the butt.
4 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:54:34 PM EST by sunmars
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To: SoFloFreeper
Fellow Alinskyites of Obama will now be FLOODED into the courts and bureaucracies......
Your freedom took a giant step backward today, thanks to Obamugabe’s brownshirts.
5 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:55:01 PM EST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
Precedent has been set for a 2015 GOP Senate and beyond.
6 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:55:58 PM EST by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!"
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To: Cboldt
Yep. I remember.
7 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:56:00 PM EST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Cboldt
McCain’s goal all along was to prevent a CONSERVATIVE president from getting his judicial nominees through. He’s all for getting a LIBERAL president’s nominees through.
8 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:57:07 PM EST by cotton1706
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To: SoFloFreeper
Maybe now Republicans won’t be so content with their minority status. The Hitlerites are rolling right over them.
9 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:57:10 PM EST by pallis
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To: SoFloFreeper
If there is a God, one day, we will cram this ruling down Democrats' throats and they'll have to take it because we'll make them.
Personally, I hope the retribution is so bad to Democrats that they end up digging that dead bastard "Searchlight Nevadan" up and throwing his traitorous bones to the four winds.
10 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:58:31 PM EST by Gaffer
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To: SoFloFreeper
Just in time for a Senate takeover in 2014.
Payback’s a b*tch!
11 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:58:41 PM EST by Uncle Miltie (I Love 0bamaCare! It proves government incompetence forever.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Say that in January 2017 Ted Cruz is in the Oval office and the Democrats are filibustering every judicial appointment he makes. Assuming the Republicans hold the majority in the Senate are you suggesting they would be fascists if they voted this same thing?
12 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:58:59 PM EST by DoodleDawg
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But he has special “discernment” ability.. maybe he has discerned that in 2014 no filibuster will be needed any more as he will no longer be in the majority..
13 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:59:07 PM EST by Bidimus1
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To: SoFloFreeper
They know this will come back to bite them in the future, but they are trading long term reward for short term success. With Obama’s ever dwindling popularity circling the drain and threatening to take his party with him, the last hope they have of enacting anything is in the next year.
14 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:59:12 PM EST by Burkean (.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
The next time there is a Republican president, the Democrats will put the old rules back.
15 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:59:15 PM EST by Mannaggia l'America
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To: SoFloFreeper
"Fellow Alinskyites of Obama will now be FLOODED into the courts and bureaucracies......"
Yep. The Marxist Democrat party is pushing it to the wall. They will not release their grip on the US through democratic means and it will take a traumatic collapse of the country for a chance at a reset.
16 posted on November 21, 2013 at 12:59:51 PM EST by Truth29
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Yes, Dingy Harry knows they will lose the senate next year. Best to frontload their picks starting now.
He’s gambling (and is probably right) that the Republicans won’t have the gonads to do the same to them after next year’s elections.
17 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:00:18 PM EST by zipper ("The Second Amendment IS my carry permit!" -- Ted Nugent)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Just in time as the GOP retakes the Senate in 2014. You’ll live to regret this Harry.
18 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:00:26 PM EST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
For over 200 hundred years, the institution worked. well, sort of..
Now this.. when despots are in power , no one is safe. not even a minority party in the Senate.
Remember that Dems, see ya in 2014 and 2016.
19 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:00:31 PM EST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Burkean
good luck, the house gop and Gop Senators should not pass a single Dem bill until it is reversed and drop any bipartisan thing pending, kill the lot stone dead.
20 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:00:32 PM EST by sunmars
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To: SoFloFreeper
The point of the exercise is to make lifetime appointments to the fed courts hearing cases over federal regulations. Current lineup is 4-D, 4-R, and 3 vacancies. Not a word from lame stream media on why Publicrats don’t approve of the 3 proposed judges.
21 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:00:34 PM EST by RideForever
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To: SoFloFreeper
"The American people believe Congress is broken.
And this proves it!
22 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:01:23 PM EST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress."
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To: Mannaggia l'America
The next time there is a Republican president, the Democrats will put the old rules back.
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The next time there is a Republican president, the Republicans will put the old rules back.
Fixed. Not sarcasm.
23 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:02:14 PM EST by Geoffrey
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To: SoFloFreeper
Not to worry: The Dems will change it back during the lame session if they lose the Senate majority in any future election.
24 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:02:15 PM EST by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Wow, the desperation has reached historic levels in the Democrat party. Pitiful
This will bite them in the rear bigtime though, and they will be crying bloody murder on their way to obscurity
25 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:02:45 PM EST by Nahhh I Dont Think So
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To: SoFloFreeper
President Cruz will have work to do in 2017. Hopefully a conservative Senate will be able to help him along.
26 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:02:46 PM EST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
The Dems have let the camel stick his nose under the tent. They tried to limit this to courts below the SCOTUS but the point is they changed the rules with a simple majority vote. The GOP can now change the rules when they have the majority.
They will be able to repeal 0bamacare with a simple majority. They will be able to change the rule again to approve conservative justices to the SCOTUS. Just need that simple majority and a non Dem POTUS. 0bamacare may just give us both.
27 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:03:53 PM EST by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts so good.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Without the filibuster there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the Senate and the House. Why do we need two Houses?
28 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:04:36 PM EST by DManA (rs)
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Never Forget the Republican who folded to Harry Reid when the GOP had the majority!!
ONLY REMIANING RINO'S in the SENATE from the GOP half of the Gang of 14
29 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:05:32 PM EST by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: Rockitz
The lame duck Senate will change the rules back before they leave office and the new Senators are sworn in.
30 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:06:32 PM EST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Senate Adopts New Rules on Filibusters
Huh? Did I miss something, Rush Limbaugh just said at the beginning of his show that the "Nuclear" threat wasn't worth discussing because it was just a distraction to take the media focus off Obamacare and that the democrats had no intention of following through, and even if they did it was a long convoluted process.
It appears that not only did they go "Nuclear" they changed the rules in about 15 minutes....
31 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:06:47 PM EST by apillar
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“The American people believe Congress is broken. The American people believe the Senate is broken…It’s time to change the Senate before this institution becomes obsolete,” Mr. Reid said.”...
Finally something I agree with Reid on. Indeed it is time to change the Senate for certain and him along with it. Get rid of the demodummies and Rhino’s in COngress while there at it.
32 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:06:53 PM EST by Progov
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To: SoFloFreeper
Revolt is coming.
33 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:07:45 PM EST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Harry will CHOKE on this when he loses power in about 1 year.
34 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:08:10 PM EST by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: Progov
Time to do some house cleaning.
35 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:08:22 PM EST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: 11th Commandment
Collins was in on that Gang of 14 stupidity too. So was Mary Mary Landrieu.
36 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:08:41 PM EST by Cboldt
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To: SoFloFreeper
Toss out all the demorat bastids.
37 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:09:04 PM EST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Republicans going against the Founders is devastating.
38 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:09:41 PM EST by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
So when is the vote to end the two-term limits for Democratic Presidents?
39 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:10:02 PM EST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: SoFloFreeper
They will rue the day!
40 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:10:28 PM EST by grobdriver
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To: cotton1706
Certainly McCain owns his errors BUT the AZ electorate is his enabler. Its an electorate problem more than a legislator problem. Lets just be completely clear on where the real problem lies.
41 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:10:56 PM EST by 556x45
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To: Uncle Miltie
I’m not counting on the 2014 takeover. The Democrats have figured out how to rig the state-wide votes.
42 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:11:47 PM EST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: SoFloFreeper
The specific rules change is irrelevant. If the majority can break the rules to change the rules, there are no rules.
43 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:11:54 PM EST by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
“This is what mobacracy looks like!”
44 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:11:57 PM EST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
So, educate me quickly. Is this the “nuclear option” we’ve heard so much about?
And if so, does anyone think they’d do this without knowing they had Majority-For-Life status?
45 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:12:36 PM EST by Old Sarge (And Good Evening, Agent Smith, wherever you are...)
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Why do we need two Houses...
Excellent question although the filibusterer is not in the Constitution, it is the last remnant of what was the US Republic. With the Direct Election of Senators, the Chamber is like to house using the power of the federal government to bring home the bacon. Without term limits, they are entrenched power houses with ego to large to control.
We are no longer a Republic.
46 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:12:41 PM EST by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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Didn’t they change the rules when they passed “Commiecare”???
47 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:13:13 PM EST by CMailBag
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To: Truth is a Weapon
Theoretically a GOP Congress with a GOP President could eliminate the filibuster in order to expand the courts. Then fill the seats with Conservatives. Like FDR tried with his SCOTUS packing scheme.
This shouldn’t be called the Nuclear Option anymore. It should be called exactly what it is: the Democrat Court-Packing Scheme
48 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:13:24 PM EST by tanknetter
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To: SoFloFreeper
Harry is being obedient to his marching orders from the White House. Obama wants those sycophant judges in place now. I’ll bet every one of them was hand selected by Jarrett and placed in such a way as to block further challenges to Obamacare and state abortion laws.
49 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:14:14 PM EST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: CMailBag
I think they ‘deemed’ it passed to see what’s in it.
50 posted on November 21, 2013 at 1:14:24 PM EST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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The freezer that thinks it's an electorate problem, not a legislator problem. 
So legislators should disregard the people who elected them? Freepers talk out of their asses.
How delightful.
"Say that in January 2017 Ted Cruz is in the Oval office and the Democrats are filibustering every judicial appointment he makes."
We are no longer a Republic.
