To Dems in Congress: Be Prepared for the Republican Filibuster

[berni_mccoy]

The minority party's only defense: the Filibuster. Be prepared for ample use of this technique in the next Congress. The Republicans are going to use it. They can not afford to be further exposed by the investigations that are going to come and they will do everything in their power to slow the Democratic Representatives and Senators as the criminal Republicans are dragged to justice. Bush will see to that. He knows that while Impeachment is off the table, investigations are not. And these investigations are all about getting to answers that very may well lead to a unanimous impeachment of his criminal administration. While the Democrats used this quite sparingly when they were the minority, they did only use it when it was appropriate (and perhaps, they didn't use it enough). Don't expect the same from the Republicans who have been all about power-grabbing and dirty tricks.

[williesgirl]

1. If they pull this too often, time for our own "nuclear option"

[lcordero2]

2. Nah

I want to see 60+ Democratic Senators (not d, but BIG D)

[ixion]

4. nah, that whole 'nuclear option' loophole needs to be closed, not further exploited

it's dirty pool by ANY majority party, IMO.

[Q3JR4]

9. No.

We fought them because we didn't want them to use it. We'd be hypocrites to use it now.

[katsy]

3. N.O.

that is... Nuke Option.

use it.

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[sfwriter]

5. Can't filibuster the investigations can you?

Those are in committee and at the chairman's discretion to some extent.

Also, after caterwauling to the Nth degree over the THREAT of a Democratic filibuster, how will it look come re-election time that you spent your time blocking health care, rules changes, etc.

Not so powerful that filibuster.

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[unblock]

6. you think republicans are afraid of being hypocritical?

:rofl:

[Bandit]

7. Filibusters are only available in the Senate

The House can launch investigations without any interference from the Senate. Once the evidence is overwhelming that Crimes were committed they would be absolute fools to try and filibuster

[lapfog_1]

8. This won't matter for committee investigations

in the House (or even the Senate). The lack of enough votes to terminate discussion and force a vote is only a concern for matters up for consideration by the entire body, I believe.

Plus, with a narrow majority themselves, the repukes never hesitated to threaten the "nuke option" (change to the Senate rules)... I would proceed as if this has now become part of the majorities bag of tricks. The repukes can hardly NOW claim that this is unfair.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Um, you can't filibuster an investigation.