Reid changes rules of the Senate

[TheTman]

Dingy Harry, and company, have changed the rules of the Senate, so that now appointments made by Obama can be approved by a simple majority vote instead of the 60 votes it took before. We can look forward now to all manner of libtard judges being appointed. I sure hope the republicans take the Senate in 2014, and then the dumbocrats will be crying when they can't block any appoitments they don't like. I guess the rules were left intact for legislation, so that the filibuster can still be used against new legislation.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9AK0V920131121

[Longitude Zero]

And when the Senate changes hands you can be the DemoNazis will scream bloody murder when the Republicans use the Nuclear Option back against them.

[deadeye]

They aren't going to loose the senate. Do you think it's not all set up?
But!
If it does looks like they will loose the senate they will change the rules back. The RINO's will go along with it. Watch.

[JohnR]

They are hoping for a 2/3 majority in the Senate to ratify the ATT. They have every intention of accomplishing that.

[Longitude Zero]

They aren't going to loose the senate. Do you think it's not all set up?
But!
If it does looks like they will loose the senate they will change the rules back. The RINO's will go along with it. Watch.

To those of us who pay attention to politics the DEMS are very concerned about the midterm elections next year and the very real possibility of seeing their grip on power loosened if not disappear altogether.

[chrish]

I'm just not seeing how the lay of the land right now and what's coming next year doesn't get the dems hammered in the Senate and the House in the 2014 elections. State after state are telling Obama to go pound sand on the individual mandate delay he's proposing to circumvent his own freakin' law. Either liberal states like CA are just gushing about Obamacare and don't want to muck w/ it, or conservative states realize that you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube after insurances companies have cancelled, priced, etc for it. So that problem continues to hemorrhage along w/ the website and the piss-poor enrollment. Then, add what's coming w/ small business. I just don't see how this doesn't turn around. Now, it not might turn around as a result of RINOs taking control after the elections, if they win control, that don't do jack **** about any of it other than to wallow in their ability to shut down filibuster (useless for at least two years under the rest of Obama's reign). But still, I don't see how the GOP can loose the House or not gain control of the Senate next year. We shall see.

Only way I can fathom it...the RINOs get bought and paid for as usual and push thru amnesty w/ the dems between now and next fall, and the Tea Party stays home and refuses to vote at all. That'll be me if amnesty happens. Actually, unless a constitution loving, hard-core candidate is running on the ballot where I am, I'm staying home. Done w/ the GOP establishment permanently.

Give me Liberty or give me the sofa!

[getsome]

Speaking of RINO's I heard a comedian talking about the 2016 presidential elections and he posed the following question to both future candidates Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie....The question was, What is your plan to improve the ultra high unemployment rate with our Inner City Youth?

Hillary: What are you crazy? You want me to tell them they gotta get a job? I get them to the polls to vote for me by telling them I'm going to take care of them for life and give them free stuff not to work, why in the hell would I do something really stupid like providing jobs for them???????

Christie....Well at least unlike Hillary I've got a plan to provide real jobs for our Inner City Youth, My plan is to expand the NBA to 15,000 teams.....

[deadeye]

To those of us who pay attention to politics the DEMS are very concerned about the midterm elections next year and the very real possibility of seeing their grip on power loosened if not disappear altogether.

I pay very close attention to politics and fully realize what Ovomit and his Chicago mafia can pull. No one has stopped them yet. Think they lost the gun control battle? They are just getting started. The American public has a very short memory and the election is a year away. If the main stream media turns he's had it. If they keep cooing over him he's not that worried. The 18 - 21 year olds as well as the illegals and radical left wing are putty in his hands. I hope you are right but we'll see.

[Armybrat]

The democrats are absolutely panicking because of the backlash against Obamacare and the fact that it's going to get worse. That FUBAR piece of.... legislation is going to cost then the senate next year and the White House in 2016.
So they are going to pack the lower courts as much as they can before the hammer drops on their sorry butts.

Their dream of easing single payer in is dead for another generation.

[downtownv]

I agree the tables have turned on these progressives, because of O care nothing else.

[chrish]

What this 'rule change' is gonna do to the courts is going to be catastrophic between now and next year. And it can't be 'undone' at that point. 1 year of unfettered, unstoppable appointments. Top that off with whatever the House RINOs + House Dems push thru amnesty wise, it will be rubber stamped by the Senate...not that they could have ultimately stopped it with a filibuster anyway.

I agree though, the public has a short term memory and are massively an instant-gratification electorate. If they manage to convince the insurance companies and states to delay the individual mandate, put off the group mandate that is coming next year, the voters will totally forget about Obamacare come November.

They have already delayed the financial side of the mandates, just this week they put off the open enrollment start period until AFTER the election and Obama's ****hole of a press guy said they needed the extra month to evaluate rate increases and get them right. Really? Freakin' actuaries that have more math, statistics, and projection capabilities in one finger than the entire CBO has in their collective moron brains and they think they need one extra month. Nope, political ploy for the elections and between now and then they are gonna put off more and more and get the states and insurance companies to agree, somehow.

[codegeek]

The Democratic legislative agenda is dead because of this.

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[Armybrat]

The Democratic legislative agenda is dead because of this.

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Now this totally discredited & corrupt administration is trying to change the subject with that boob Kerry's incompetent "deal" with the Iranians over their nuke program.

Consider just weeks ago the media's treatment of Ted Cruz. He's a lunatic, an extremist, a crazy person. Fast forward to today. By more than 2:1, the American people favor repeal of Obamacare. It's a disaster, one that is getting worse with time. It is having precisely the effect that the Tea Party predicted. None of the things Obama said are coming true - it's not lowering costs, improving access, or improving quality. Everything the Tea Party said is coming true.

And the media, along with the rest of the Washington establishment including most Republicans, wants us to think the Tea Party is crazy and Obama is God. That's how screwed we are.

The extremists (Obama, Reid, Pelosi) in control of the democrat party are very dangerous to America at this point.

[Sage]

To those of us who pay attention to politics the DEMS are very concerned about the midterm elections next year and the very real possibility of seeing their grip on power loosened if not disappear altogether.

Those who pay attention to politics realize the Dems will probably lose seats in the mid terms. However 2016 may not be a good year for the Republicans. They are going to have to defend 24 seats and the Dems only 10.

[JimC]

To those of us who pay attention to politics the DEMS are very concerned about the midterm elections next year and the very real possibility of seeing their grip on power loosened if not disappear altogether.

The midterm elections are a year away. The average voter can't remember what took place a year ago! The Dems are hoping for just this.