January 5th should be interesting.

[lonestarnot]

[liberal N proud]

1. What will make it interesting?

[lonestarnot]

7. Rachel talked about it as a window, a very small one on that date in which the rules of the Senate

could be changed to a majority vote to pass. :shrug:

[nc4bo]

8. I guess we're all going to have to wait and see.

I missed Rachel and Keith tonight so thanks for the info.

[lonestarnot]

9. It would sure get some stuff done. :) Hope it happens. Now there's my 2 cents on hope.

[postulater]

10. How did the rule get so screwed up in the first place?

And why didnt they change it before when it became obvious it was counterproductive?

[lonestarnot]

11. Beats me.

On both counts. If it is a proceedural rule of the Senate, I do not understand why the fuck it hasn't been done before now. :shrug: and I do not have any idea how it fucking just came about that we must have a superduper majority in Senate to pass shit. :shrug: again.

[nc4bo]

2. Is that the BOA dump date? nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Is that the day the new Congress starts up?

Whichever day it is, it WILL be interesting.

[nc4bo]

4. Yes it will. Even though 2011 should be an extremely interesting year period.

I still hold on to a smidgen of hope. Silly me.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. You're not silly!

Hope is never silly...

I'm holding on to a smidgen of hope too...

:hi:

[awoke_in_2003]

5. how many times that day...

will the incoming "Weeper of the House" weep. On the over-under, I bet more than 4.

[lonestarnot]

12. Ickyleaks gets my skin all creepy crawley. Buying stock in kleenex.

[jmowreader]

13. The reality is, changing "the rule" won't change the situation

Unless we get rid of the Filibuster, we could change the "rule" to require a 51-vote majority to pass legislation and still need 60--because the Republicans will continue to filibuster everything.

The only way to possibly fix this problem is the "Disneyland Approach." At Disneyland, they've got a whole crew of people who do nothing but clean up graffiti. They're equipped with cleaning agents, scouring pads and cans of paint. The theory, which WORKS, is that if the graffiti is immediately removed it will discourage people from putting more up. In the Senate's case, allowing no more than 30 Republicans to sully the halls of power (by getting ahead of the worthless fucks in campaigns, which probably won't happen because of Citizens United and the Mighty Wurlitzer, but one can dream) would solve the filibuster problem--they launch one, we immediately hold a cloture vote and end it.