Senate fl NOW---Reid wants to add amend. and McConnell is OBjecting

[rodeodance]

[rodeodance]

1. McConnell saying you would need 60 Votes and all Iraq votes have failed in the past.

[bdamomma]

14. McConnell just shut up

they will get those 60 votes if more of those stupid repigs go with the Democrats on this, I think this is what the Dems are hoping for, and for more repigs to jump off the ship and go with the Dems.

[jazzjunkysue]

50. Harry on TV now: Press conference. Selling Levin-Reid.

"We've already been told several republicans are with us. Sounds like a majority to me."
"Hard for me to believe that a funding bill for the troops won't go forward."
"The republican minority is so envious, that they obstruct everything. We're going to make sure this passes."
"If they obstruct everything we're going to make sure the american people know what they're doing."

[wakeme2008]

2. what amendment

:shrug:

[MonkeyFunk]

5. Webb amendment 2012

to require 15 months off between deployment of troops.

[spanone]

8. it's a bill that gives the same time off as served

if you are deployed for a year, a year off.
15 month deployment, 15 months off and so on

[MonkeyFunk]

20. ah

I heard somebody mention 15 months - I thought that was hard coded. Guess not.

it also prohibits any reserve unit from being redeployed within 3 years.

[Beelzebud]

3. Why do I get the feeling Reid is about to get railroaded into a bad agreement?

[rodeodance]

4. Reid just called for a cloture vote

[MonkeyFunk]

6. and McConnell

is whining about it.

I'd love to see those fuckers try to block this.

[rodeodance]

9. bet they do. For some reason McConnell does NOT want it.

[rodeodance]

7. Reid wanted an up and down vote for the Webb amendment

[spanone]

11. dick durbin is kicking some ass. saying the thugs are gonna filibuster EVERY iraq war amendment

[rodeodance]

15. He is on a ROLL

[rodeodance]

22. is McCain OPPOSING the Web amendment?

[spanone]

29. it seems like it....no one like a senator can talk for 20 minutes and not say shit.

[trashcanistanista]

35. McCain is the best at it

I listened to his entire speil and he basically said nothing.

[rubberducky]

10. Very interesting. Give us the up or down vote!

Prove how much you support the troops.

[spanone]

12. support the troops is nothing but a bumper sticker to the mcconnells of the world

[rodeodance]

13. Durbin saying Repugs are fillerbustering this amendment

[MonkeyFunk]

16. then hold the cloture vote

put 'em on record as blocking this.

[rodeodance]

32. I do not why the delay when Reid said a while age he would have one now.

[onenote]

37. because there is a formal procedure for invoking cloture with a built in delay

Explained here:

http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/98-425.pdf

[rodeodance]

40. hey thanks. I will take a look see.

[bdamomma]

17. oh these repigs need to be slapped down hard

or are they on the Madam's list?????

[coco77]

18. Mc Connell needs to take his old dry ass some where..

and sit down and shut up, he has messed up the country as it is...

[sinkingfeeling]

19. Start jumping up and down, yelling 'I want a up or down vote' like they did last year.

[sharp_stick]

21. Bring back the nuclear option

I bet those repuke pricks are sure glad ol' cat killer frist never got his way on that now huh?

[buzzard]

36. Remind me how that works if you have time.n/t

[sharp_stick]

52. Let's see if I can remember

It was a thing that Frist and the repuke majority "thought" up when they were worried about the dems fillibustering shrubs judicial nominees.

Basically a fillibuster requires 60 votes to stop but Frist had an idea to pass a motion that would make the fillibuster no longer an option for nominees. This motion would only take a simple majority and so would ban the fillibuster.

I think the nuclear option is idiotic now for the same reason I did then, it assumes that you're party is going to be the majority forever and as the pukes found out to our great enjoyment there is no such thing as a permanent majority and the nuclear option will come back and bite you on the ass.

It would be a lot of fun to see the pukes go nuts if Harry Reid brought up the option though, even as a joke.

[MiniMe]

23. Damn, I turned it on hoping to see Reid and Durbin

and McLiebercain is up. :puke:

[rodeodance]

30. Gawd a 5 MINUTE WHINE!!

[rodeodance]

24. hey McCain tell the 'average citizen' what the % ARE for Dems and Repugs in Congress -not just

say the historic lows for congress!!

[spanone]

25. who yielded their fucking time to mccain?? STFU

sign the fucking bill john....sign the bill, you want to help the troops, sign the fucking bill.

[rodeodance]

26. It believe he is the one who has been disignation to push thru the bill on the repug side. not sure

[rodeodance]

27. ha ha Mccain is complaining off the Iraq bills brought up that are LOST ----but

he forgets he MISSED most of them!

[rodeodance]

28. Quiet McCain----wish my paintgun would shoot thru the screen!

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

44. What a HOOT!!! He's a political "ho" fearful of a forced draft 'cause the recruitment's down.

Good GOD, McCain!!!

You got screwed by BUSHCO and have decided to,...what,..."ho" toe in hope of a presidential bid?

Shoulda' stuck with what you were: it was substantive.

[rodeodance]

31. It is obvious that REPUGS do NOT want ANY votes on Iraq!!

[MiniMe]

33. Ugh, some repuke: We have hundreds of amendments

Of course they do. The more amendments they want to bring up, the less chance it will pass.

[rodeodance]

34. McCain LOGIC---no vote now cause it will come up in Sept. Ha ha---is that all

he has got?

[rodeodance]

38. Levin has politely told McCain to take a hike--that the Senate IS the place to

have a debate.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

39. Republican party HATES our troops unless they'll BEHAVE as slaves.

SICK!!!

The Republican party's ready to bust an amendment that serves the best interests of our troops!!!

The Republican party,...is the PARTY OF TAKERS AND SHITTERS, shitting on anyone threatening their power or "way of life".

assholes

[cureautismnow]

41. I wish Larry Flynt would give McConnell a ring.

:evilgrin:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

45. ummm,...irrelevant to what is at hand,...

bugs the heck out of me when posts like this show up

silly

stupid

irrelevant

worthless

[cureautismnow]

51. Silly, stupid, worthless, and entirely irrelevant rants...

...amuse me. :P

[rodeodance]

42. IT IS so so so OBvious that REpugs are AFRAID to have a VOTE!!

[rodeodance]

43. oh crapola---it is weaselly sessions---another wimp

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

46. YUP!!!! They don't want to show WHO THEY ACTUALLY SERVE!!!

[rodeodance]

47. TESTER did GRAND (co-sponser of Webb amendment)

[rodeodance]

48. kit Bond up----says the troops say not to cut them off.

[Old and In the Way]

49. Republicans are for enforced military servitude.

Webb is brilliant...he knows that this eviscerates the Republican argument. There aren't enough troops to sustain our occupation in Iraq if this is implemented. But this will absolutely destroy the Republicans to vote against giving our soldiers a break.