Your new presidency
JHoward
…naturally requires a like-minded imperial Senate. Washington Times:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP’s ability to filibuster bills.
Speaking in the wake of Tuesday’s election, which boosted Senate Democrats’ numbers slightly, Mr. Reid said he won’t end filibusters altogether but that the rules need to change so that the minority party cannot use the legislative blocking tool as often.
“I think that the rules have been abused and that we’re going to work to change them,” he told reporters. “Were not going to do away with the filibuster but we’re going to make the Senate a more meaningful place.”
Republicans, who have 47 of the chamber’s 100 seats in this current Congress, have repeatedly used that strong minority to block parts of President Obama’s agenda on everything from added stimulus spending to his judicial picks.
Far be it for me to whine and carp at wholly subjective language in this the age of Obama’s rightly and necessarily finally defeating an obstructionist Party-of-No Congress apparently intent on ending, say, Bill Clinton’s post impeachment and equally trademarkable Work of the American People, but something about this just seems like the wrong tone to initiate what will almost certainly be the last best four years of the American Republic. Four years sans reelection fears but replete with the President’s number one’s vow to work even harder. Well, and the President’s too, more or less.
As you bitterclingers knew that Republic, that is. You antiques. I mean, even Fox hasn’t gotten that memo.
So the big question a day after Obama’s decisive electoral-vote victory is, will it be gridlock as usual or did Tuesday night’s results herald a new era of compromise?
Or do you altogether miss the point of bypassing Congress altogether?
h/t sdferr
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Why is it Democrats are never called upon to compromise when Republicans win elections?
- Don’t worry, squishy is atill alive and well:
“Boehner extends olive branch on fiscal cliff”
- In other news…..
“Not everyone is happy.
- Chrissy tingles Mathew decides he’d like to go on breathing for awhile.
Tingles may have gone over the cliff with that remark, BBH.
Let’s see what stupid stuff he can say about the nor’easter that’s walloping the boroughs now.
“Wow! Look at that snow! Those poor bastards can’t catch a break!”
Meanwhile, FEMA has a sign up in front of its NYoffices that says it’s closed because of weather. I’m not kidding.
From Instapundit.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i0aKPIse1bbtAHD3LIdkpTfHfw7g?docId=c116e763ff084c0289aa2bd1b519032d
Apparently no constitutional rights were harmed in the making of this perfectly normal and non-suspicious law enforcement event. Good thing too! I’d really hate to feel unsafe before the whims of an out of control Federal government. Yeah it’s a good thing they called the sheriffs in to discuss parole violations instead of y’know putting a guy away for ugly speech after telling the Father of a dead ex Navy Seal that they would and announcing to the UN that there is no place in the future for those who slander the prophet.
“Tingles may have gone over the cliff with that remark, BBH.”
There may not BE a cliff anymore. Except the financial one. Sure, there are plenty of cliffs for ugly crazy racist clingers of the bitter variety like us. But not for someone of Chris Matthews’ well cut jib. He’s always one non-apology away from being universally loved again.
I think Baracko will find that broad-based vague Executive Orders implemented by bureaucrat administraitors still produce the desired socialist results much faster than trying that pesky legislative process, so I don’t think it matters much about the filibuster rules.
Y’all need to listen to/see the lyrics of a Pink Floyd song. It makes a metric shit ton of sense. I suck at linking, but it is
US and THEM Because once you listen/read? you’ll get it.
#WAR
Us and Them – Pink Floyd (Studio Version)
Us and Them
And after all we’re only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
And the General sat, as the lines on the map
Moved from side to side
Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it’s only round and round and round
Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words
The poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There’s room for you inside
Down and Out
It can’t be helped but there’s a lot of it about
With, without
And who’ll deny that’s what the fightings all about
Get out of the way, it’s a busy day
And I’ve got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died
you go baracky
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
TY Newrouter!!
But I do mean it. We are different animals…a different species? I’m a business owner who is barely surviving by the luck of the fucking building was paid for by my mom….The rest? I still owe a little on, like the new lathe and the compressor, but that ain’t shit.
2 granddaughters, a grandson in 4 weeks, live in mass, I can’t move but GOD I want to!!
Us and Them
And after all we’re only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do
Thats one of the parts I meant.
Sorry everyone, pissed off and getting drunk because I’m worried….I can take care of myself, but my kids? not so much….well, except with rifles
Great song, off what I deem the best uncategorizeable album of that decade. And since.
Heh. He said ‘album’. Binders full of albums, right here in my home!
- The “front rank” is still safely ensconched in the manufactured, pasteurized, all natural, fat free bubble, but like all such illusions, it will take them low soon.
When they clutch to their pearls
all wondering why
When the bubble it bursts
and they wail and they cry
When they shout out his name
And beg for some bread
He’ll say let them eat posters
and say they’re well fed
When it finally hits them
How falsely hes led
They can all sleep the damned
In their lazily made bed
I know Sd..it’s like sifi wrapped in philosophy wrapped in (music) porn,,,but it makes sense!!
You want a song that IS going to come true under King Putt?
RUN LIKE HELL Floyd, The Wall
Run like hell:
Run, run, run, run [repeat line four times]
You better make your face up in
Your favourite disguise
With your button down lips and your
Roller blind eyes
With your empty smile
And your hungry heart
Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
With your nerves in tatters
When the cockleshell shatters
And the hammers batter
Down the door
You better run
Run, run, run, run [repeat line four times]
You better run all day
And run all night
And keep your dirty feelings
Deep inside. And if your
Takin’ your girlfriend
Out tonight
You better park the car
Well out of sight
‘Cos if they catch you in the back seat
Trying to pick her locks
They’re gonna send you back to mother
In a cardboard box
You better run
Elections have consequences. On the radio they’re already talking about the need for immigration reform after seeing the R portion of the latino vote drop from 40% to 33% to Romney’s 29%. The Republican Party acts like any other dog when you beat them hard enough.
That sounds a lot like the voice of experience. Michael Vick, is that you?
Ann Coulter, super GEN-ius, tries to shore up the brand a little bit, the night after the big custard pie hit America’s face.
“Don’t blame Romney.” ( Or her. She”s okay if you blame Christie again though. She’s so OVER him. )
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-11-07.html
Awww. Dana Loesch wants to be friends again too. We just had a bad week. C’mon, this is us! BFF! We can put this behind us. Let’s hang out again and in no time at all we’ll wonder why were were ever fighting.
http://danaloeschradio.com/five-things-we-did-wrong-and-four-things-that-went-right/
Maya are sick of the Dresden Codex 2012 stuff. They wish we’d grow the hell up and just shut our morbid gringo pie holes about it.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gywyFBlDnkiDery2-7rJ3p_bh4Yw
Any chance McConnell has a plan to fight back on any of this?
Why am I suddenly laughing?
I seem to remember something else someone once said about dogs.
How long will that carnival freak show of a coalition known as the Democrat Party hold together when they finally run out of other people’s money?
I wonder.
Reid’s filibusting threat would be a lot more meaningful if the Senate had any intention of passing legislation. I mean, it’s hard to filibuster anything when the chamber refuses to look at anything the House sends their way.
I still wonder if the ’06 midterms might have turned out differently if Mitchell had had the balls to nuke the filibuster.