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Mitch McConnell Just Filibustered Himself
Not even shitting you. This actually happened today.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell puts up a bill to weaken Congress' ability to raise the debt limit -- mostly as a ruse, intended to prove to Harry Reid that Reid didn't have the votes to pull it off. After conferring with his caucus, Reid decides to calls the bluff, and scuttles the bill in for a prompt vote. Which McConnell immediately has to filibuster. Again, not even shitting you. http://fatlip.leoweekly.com/2012/12/...rious-fashion/ Mitch McConnell makes Senate history, in hilarious fashion Posted by jsonka on December 6, 2012 at 3:04 pm. We all know that Sen. Mitch McConnell is quite fond of the filibuster. Sure, he used to be for reforming and weakening it, but that was before he was in the minority and used it like an Uzi, spreading over 380 filibusters all over the Senate chamber in recent years. But today, McConnell broke yet another milestone in the history of the filibuster, and did so in spectacular fashion. With Republicans now threatening to play a repeat of last summer, when they held the economy hostage by threatening not to raise the debt ceiling, today McConnell attempted a stunt by offering up the Democratic debt ceiling plan for a vote. Yes, this happened to be the exact same plan that McConnell himself came up with last year (and wasn’t used), where it would take a 2/3 majority to override the president’s ability to lift the ceiling. But Harry Reid then called McConnell’s bluff, and allowed the vote to proceed. That’s when comedy ensued, and history was made: Quote:
Or perhaps the filibuster Frankenstein that McConnell created has become self-aware? I think I saw a movie about this kind of thing once… ***** UPDATE: For your viewing pleasure: |
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You would think he would be smart enough to at least get one of his fellow R's to filibuster it for him...jeez.
Sometimes when you play politics, you get burned. He deserves it in this case.
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Please tell me again how the filibuster is a useful tool and that Republicans haven't abused it.
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What a clown.
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It's a defunct party. There's a crisis of leadership. It's mostly because nobody know what it means to be a Republican anymore.
It will probably be 12 years before we ever see a Republican president, and I would be surprised if 10 of those years aren't with House and Senate democrat majorities. And that's without mentioning the Supreme Court. The next century will be a leftist century. Just like the last one, I suppose.
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I cant believe this actually happened. And not a R in here to rush to his defense?
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This is incredible.
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Yep. When TJ joins in, with the ridicule...the GOP should know they are really screwed.
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