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.
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?
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 21
st CENTURY! MY NEED IS MORE!
I mean, I guess he DID technically prove his point about Congress being ineffectual wieners... just not quite the way he'd intended.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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. :)
That was amazing. :horrormirth: