Sen. Reid Threatens to Drop a Nuke on Congress, Procedural-Style Comments

cousinitt

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:39:44 +0000

"When Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah, hurrah…. http://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y Do this thing.

HarryButtle

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:37:47 +0000

Why are we still talking about this? Fucking do it or fucking don't, Harry, but stop fucking whining about it!

BloviateMe

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:37:21 +0000

Right. Reid going nuclear. To quote Night of the Grizzly, "that old appleknocker, he aint' gonna do nuthin'."

decentcitizen

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:36:20 +0000

I'll believe it when I see it. If GOP assholiness were any more obvious, it would have a Mike Tyson face tatoo. Harry doesn't have the balls to do it.

Callyson

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:34:03 +0000

Reid changed Senate procedures with a unilateral vote in October 2011 when he and 50 members of his caucus voted to prevent Republicans from forcing votes on amendments after the chamber had voted to move to final passage of a bill. McConnell protested the maneuver vehemently. “We are fundamentally turning the Senate into the House,” he cried on the Senate floor. “The minority’s out of business.”

So Yertle admits that if his side is no longer allowed to do everything possible to prevent the Senate from getting anything done, his side is out of business. Good to know. /FFS

GeneralLerong

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:33:45 +0000

This is what I hate about politics - having to pay attention and understand stuff, and then feeling like chewing a hole in the carpet from outrage.

cousinitt

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:33:39 +0000

My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw the Tea Party Wackos forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

ifthethunderdontgetya

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:32:37 +0000

It's all a dog and pony show. They don't care about you people. ~

Lionel[redacted]Esq

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:30:54 +0000

Another suggestion: Any time a Senator invokes a filibuster, taxes on the top 2% must go up one full percentage point. Or maybe you can only filibuster if your mistress has had an abortion in the last six months.

rickmaci

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:30:48 +0000

Nothing there. Empty threats. Harry Ried is a wus.

SorosBot

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:30:15 +0000

Well the Republicans should happily go along with this, I mean they all said that filibustering judicial nominees was the worst abuse of Senate powers ever back when the Democrats were filibustering about a dozen of Bush's judicial nominees and surely those objections were principled and they would never be hypocritical enough as to change their positions merely because of the change in party in both the Senate and the White House.

Callyson

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:28:14 +0000

maybe centrist Democrats can finally be persuaded to support serious filibuster reform. And the plan, apparently, is to do this at the same time that Republicans are likely to be ramping up yet another hostage-taking exercise over the debt ceiling, thus providing yet more evidence of their extremism. Should be fun.

OK, then maybe there was a point to caving on this issue earlier in the year. That said, my previous comment above still applies...

docterry6973

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:25:30 +0000

I do not care to think of Harry Reid doing anything with his John Thomas, thanks.

BitterScribe

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:25:29 +0000

I dunno...your peener jokes make your fireworks jokes look pretty good.

weejee

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:25:15 +0000

And filibuster differs from skatole how?

cousinitt

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:24:33 +0000

Bomb, bomb, bomb Bomb-bomb, Ry-an.

Lionel[redacted]Esq

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:24:12 +0000

I prefer the option that any Senator that holds up the vote on a nominee must do so by personally taking a shit on the nominee's chest. Of course, this would place all the power in the hands (or is that ass) of David Vitter.

Callyson

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:24:10 +0000

Fucking DO IT this time, Senator Reid! DO IT!!! In case any of the above is unclear: For fuck's sake, do NOT make another empty threat--DO IT!!!!!

Lizzietish81

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:24:06 +0000

Release the hounds

Lucidamente1

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:21:52 +0000

Also, too, remember that last January Judge David Sentelle (Asshat Circuit Appeals Court) voided three of Barry's recess appointments because pro forma sessions.