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Crazy Teabagger fillibusters his own bill.

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, December 07, 2012, 02:09:55 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

December 07, 2012, 02:09:55 PM
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/mcconnell-filibusters-his-own-bill-to-lift-debt-limit.php

QuoteSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wanted to prove on Thursday that Democrats don't have the votes to weaken Congress' authority on the debt limit. Instead they called his bluff, and he ended up filibustering his own bill.

The legislation, modeled on a proposal McConnell offered last year as a "last-choice option" to avert a U.S. debt default, would permit the president to unilaterally lift the debt ceiling unless Congress mustered a two-thirds majority to stop him. President Obama has championed the idea.

McConnell brought up the legislation Thursday morning. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) initially objected, seemingly proving the Republican leader's point that it cannot pass the Senate. But then Reid ran it by his members and, in the afternoon, agreed to hold that same vote. This time it was McConnell who objected.

"The Republican leader objects to his own idea," Reid declared on the floor. "So I guess we have a filibuster of his own bill."


And

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfenXNi9HcI&feature=player_embedded

Hilarious.
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Cainad (dec.)

#1
December 07, 2012, 06:51:07 PM
I don't... what?

Teabagger double-dog-dares Congress to do something that he actually doesn't want to happen just to prove that they're too chicken to do it... and then freaks out when they take the dare?

The Good Reverend Roger

#2
December 07, 2012, 06:56:09 PM
Quote from: Cainad on December 07, 2012, 06:51:07 PM
I don't... what?

Teabagger double-dog-dares Congress to do something that he actually doesn't want to happen just to prove that they're too chicken to do it... and then freaks out when they take the dare?

I NEED MORE 21st CENTURY!  MY NEED IS MORE!
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cainad (dec.)

#3
December 07, 2012, 06:58:38 PM
I mean, I guess he DID technically prove his point about Congress being ineffectual wieners... just not quite the way he'd intended.

The Good Reverend Roger

#4
December 07, 2012, 07:04:39 PM
Quote from: Cainad on December 07, 2012, 06:58:38 PM
I mean, I guess he DID technically prove his point about Congress being ineffectual wieners... just not quite the way he'd intended.

Whichever.  I'm up for ANY program.  This is the sort of government I've PRAYED for, for years.  I am the Captain Ahab of politics, only I deliberately tied myself to the fucking whale.

TGRR,
Arm flopping, waving you all onward.  AD FUNDUM!
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cainad (dec.)

#5
December 07, 2012, 07:14:18 PM
AD

FUCKING

FUNDUM!


Might as well move out of the Capitol Building and set up the Big Tent. The audience has been eating overpriced peanuts long enough for it, anyway.

Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

#6
December 07, 2012, 07:46:09 PM
There's a specialness about this fellow. A sense of righteousness and purpose that we see so rarely. We should send him a tin-foil helmet.
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The Good Reverend Roger

#7
December 07, 2012, 07:47:47 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 07, 2012, 07:46:09 PM
There's a specialness about this fellow. A sense of righteousness and purpose that we see so rarely. We should send him a tin-foil helmet.

And some lithium.  For the weekends, when he isn't on TV.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

#8
December 07, 2012, 08:03:28 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 07, 2012, 07:47:47 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 07, 2012, 07:46:09 PM
There's a specialness about this fellow. A sense of righteousness and purpose that we see so rarely. We should send him a tin-foil helmet.

And some lithium.  For the weekends, when he isn't on TV.

That would be a nice touch. I think he'd appreciate it. :)
Weevil-Infested Badfun Wrongsex Referee From The 9th Earth
Slick and Deranged Wombat of Manhood Questioning
Hulking Dormouse of Lust and DESPAIR™
Gatling Geyser of Rainbow AIDS

"The only way we can ever change anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy." - Akala  'Find No Enemy'.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#9
December 07, 2012, 08:58:25 PM
That was amazing.  :horrormirth:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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