re: #421 sattv4u2

Filibusters have, can, and will be broken. There are at least two repub senators that are fence sitters. Work them

They also have the nuclear option. All the dems need is a SIMPLE majority for that. They Do have that ,, no !?!?!

CAVEAT ,,, the ‘nuke option” takes balls!

So ,,, if the leg is THAT important, i’d go nuclear! Wouldn’t you?

Do you know what the Nuclear option is/was?

The Nuclear option was brought about for situations relating to placing judges on the supreme court, not for getting laws passed, and even then the idea has never been implemented.

For good or for bad if we use the Nuclear option that will in turn make the Senate a land of 50 votes plus vice president and while that’s fun while you’re in power Democrats god bless their cowardly little souls never have the thought of what they’ll do when they’re out of power far from their minds, even if they rarely even have the guts to make use of the fillibuster when they’re out of power.

Secondly if Olympia Snowe is so much of a fence sitter why exactly did only vote for it on a commite where her vote for it wouldn’t matter, and then go on to she fillibuster the bill the first time it went through the senate as a whole? The bill has no public option, and no co pay both of those were amputated just to get Liberman on board, what is left that the Republicans can find so objectionable?

Thirdly are you suggesting that in a situation when there are 59 democrats and 41 republicans its fair that the most moderate republican in the senate gets to decide what passes and what doesn’t? Especially when every republican has to worry about appearing moderate these days for fear some teabagging lunatic will primary them come November?

Fourthly, I’ll give you the democrats don’t have balls, or at least Harry Reid doubtlessly doesn’t, otherwise we would have used reconcillation on this sucker from the get go, but apparently Obama didn’t want to look like he was jamming legislature down the nation’s throat through obscure legal rules. So instead we get to have the entire shebang held up by a little bit more than 2/5ths of of the Senate whoopie!