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   ODon said, 5 months ago

   Matt’s a poet, don’t ya know it.
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   Stipple said, 5 months ago

   Hang on until the election
   don’t catch a a flu infection
   There is truth in the toon
   change can’t come too soon.
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   disgustedtaxpayer said, 5 months ago

   the filibuster is a senate-chosen rule by majority vote.
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   filibusters sometimes save citizens from very bad bills.
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   “The People” elect congress to do the People’s Will, but
   too many laws have passed both the House and Senate that the Public Obviously Loudly Shouted in every way possible that WE DO NOT WANT IT….case in point, most recent, the Obamacare travesty that is ruining American health care.
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   lifebyc said, 5 months ago

   @disgustedtaxpayer

   I wanted to agree with you until you spouted your typical ignorance – how can it be ruining healthcare when it’s still being enacted. I went back and looked at your posts. You claimed it was ruining health care BEFORE it was enacted. If you would stick to the facts, you make great points once in a while. Now, don’t you think the filibuster has done far more harm than good, regardless of the bill we may be debating? Honestly? Or are you unfamiliar with that word?
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   ARodney said, 5 months ago

   I can’t think of a bad bill or appointment that’s been blocked by the filibuster. Even Robert Bork, a perfectly terrible choice for the supreme court for all kinds of reasons, wasn’t filibustered. He was voted out by a majority of senators, the way the constitution intended bad bills and appointments to be stopped. Nowadays, one solitary senator could have blocked him, because that’s the new normal.
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   Radish said, 5 months ago

   Congress has blocked the appointment of a head of the ATF for six years now. F as in firearms, blocked as in NRA. There are to few ATF agents, 17 years between inspections of gun shops is the norm.
   See last nights Jon Stewart
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   mickey1339 said, 5 months ago

   @Radish

   I would rather they used more inspectors for the FDA and inspected food processing plants and drug manufacturers. Thousands get sick and it never makes a headline until it is practically epidemic or racks up a steep mortality count.
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   ThePupUnbound! said, 5 months ago

   Yes, libs usually are the first to break and change rules when those rules get in the way of their various passions. Or they wait – wait til they get a temporary majority and the Presidency and then they slam whatever BS they have on hand down America’s throat. Why not put your BS to a vote, Libs? Or do you know you can’t win otherwise?
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   ThePupUnbound! said, 5 months ago

   @mickey1339

   “I’ve got an epidemic in my pants and it does a modern dance.”
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    ThePupUnbound! said, 5 months ago

    @Radish

    I think we need to inspect lib-posters from the west coast. Let’s make sure they pass they “not-currently-inhaling” test.
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    Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

    Fillibuster: Good when dems do it, bad when Republicans do it. Point taken.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    The present “filibuster” is a ghost of its former self. You can just put a stay on a bill. Don’t have to lift a finger or do anything else. There is no way to unstop it. That has to go. Better to return it to the long winded version or eliminated it.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    It is bad when it is so easy anyone can do it without working for it. Best to end it don’t you agree?
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    Radish said, 5 months ago

    @ThePupUnbound!

    Did they let you out of your box again?
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    mextea said, 5 months ago

    except when democrats use it!
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