Sinema Goes to Floor For Filibuster Support

[Hagar]

Krysten Sinema let her vote be known.  She will not support doing away with the Filibuster.  

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But Wait, there’s more.  A lesson to be learned here folks.  During Bush Jr’s last term there was a movement in the Republican Party to eliminate the Filibuster.  McConnell refused.  And then Schumer said, “Bottom line is very simple: The ideologues in the Senate want to turn what the Founding Fathers called ‘the cooling saucer of democracy’ into the rubber stamp of a dictatorship.  We will not let them”.  But now Schumer is trying to kill the filibuster.  Sound a little two faced?  Yes!

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[CardinalBacker]

4 minutes ago, Hagar said:

Krysten Sinema let her vote be known.  She will not support doing away with the Filibuster.  

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But Wait, there’s more.  A lesson to be learned here folks.  During Bush Jr’s last term there was a movement in the Republican Party to eliminate the Filibuster.  McConnell refused.  And then Schumer said, “Bottom line is very simple: The ideologues in the Senate want to turn what the Founding Fathers called ‘the cooling saucer of democracy’ into the rubber stamp of a dictatorship.  We will not let them”.  But now Schumer is trying to kill the filibuster.  Sound a little two faced?  Yes!

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I think being two-faced is a criterion for being a politician.  

Just like when the Republican Senate didn't want to approve Obama's pick for the Supreme Court with a looming presidential election in 2016, but turned around and crammed Trump's pick through in 2020 without even blushing. 

The answer is "well, the other side would have done the same thing given the opportunity" and they're not wrong.  The Republicans would have done away with the filibuster when it suited their purposes.  You can't be too mad if the Dems try to do away with it when it suits THEIR purposes.  It's all semantics. 

[tvc184]

17 minutes ago, CardinalBacker said:

I think being two-faced is a criterion for being a politician.  

Just like when the Republican Senate didn't want to approve Obama's pick for the Supreme Court with a looming presidential election in 2016, but turned around and crammed Trump's pick through in 2020 without even blushing. 

The answer is "well, the other side would have done the same thing given the opportunity" and they're not wrong.  The Republicans would have done away with the filibuster when it suited their purposes.  You can't be too mad if the Dems try to do away with it when it suits THEIR purposes.  It's all semantics. 

It is not that the other side “would” have done the same. The other side “did” do the same.

The Republicans did nothing until the Democrats removed the filibuster to get federal judges approved.  They were warned by McConnell, if they change the rules, it would come back to haunt them.

The Democrats changed the rules but later did not like the result. They assumed that Hillary would win and then it would be no problem. 

[Reagan]

1 hour ago, CardinalBacker said:

I think being two-faced is a criterion for being a politician.  

Just like when the Republican Senate didn't want to approve Obama's pick for the Supreme Court with a looming presidential election in 2016, but turned around and crammed Trump's pick through in 2020 without even blushing. 

The answer is "well, the other side would have done the same thing given the opportunity" and they're not wrong.  The Republicans would have done away with the filibuster when it suited their purposes.  You can't be too mad if the Dems try to do away with it when it suits THEIR purposes.  It's all semantics. 

Well, it's a good thing the Republicans did!  The present Attorney General is who was turned down.  This guy is a fruit cake!  Trump's pick is s constitutionalist, Garland is not!  Think about Yobama's other picks and think about how better off we are without this clown on the Supreme Court!