Hilarious constitutional technicality that we sometimes forget: Joe “Fuck Yeah” Biden is literally President of the Senate. This means that he can do whatever he wants, to the Senate! And with Democrats possibly POSSIBLY losing a Senate seat in their precious Massachusetts tomorrow, maybe he will just “jaw down” the filibuster: “As long as I have served … I’ve never seen, as my uncle once said, the Constitution stood on its head as they’ve done. This is the first time every single solitary decisions has required 60 senators… No democracy has survived needing a super majority.” So if Coakley loses tomorrow, Joe Biden will go nuclear and apply Secret Senate Rule XLVIII: “If Joe Biden says ‘hey fillybuster, fuck off already, JESUS…’, then the filibuster is dead.” [Ben Smith]
FIDDLING WITH THE RULES
January 18, 2010
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with fava beans and a nice chianti
Hey hasnt the super majority requirement worked wonders for California’s finances.
Please oh please let this happen; Joe, if you destroy the fucking filibuster, I’ll take back every bad thing I’ve ever said about you. Hell, just having a credible threat might get the Senate Repubs to stop filibustering every single fucking thing.
Next, can you do something about the ridiculous single-Senator holds against half your boss’s appointments?
As the fourth branch of government, Joe Biden can do whatever he wants — so it’s clear that letting him abolish the supermajority requirement is a constitutional provision of the unitary executive that’s permissible in a time of war. Hey, this could be fun.
Fuck, if Joe does this I’ll wash his TransAm for him.
I read this as “Hilarious constitutional technicality Joe Biden”, which would have been much funnier.
But yeah, this would be cool.
If Joe is going to roll out the Double Secret Nuclear Option, before they vote, the bill should be rewritten with one finger firmly extended in Liebermann and Nelson’s direction.
The only thing Joe Biden is overlooking here is that since Joe Biden won’t live forever, who’s going to be Joe Biden after Joe Biden is gone?
I would be against this if I didn’t completely agree with it. Also.
And I love how old Joe attributed that saying to his uncle. I guess he learned his lesson, right?
What goes around comes around…
We’ve seen the true power the VP wields thanks to Dick Cheney, so hey why not?
[re=496278]BarackMyWorld[/re]: Well, as my uncle once said, “Yes.”
Let me just emphasize, after all this talk, very few actual filibusters have happened. F’ing make the minority actually do it, if that is what they want! Give them a stack of DC phone books, jam all the vending machines within walking distance of the Capitol, hold the body in session 24/7, turn on the tv cameras, and let them step right up! I don’t believe the public would react so positively, watching the minority read phone books out loud (or whatever) while public health care dies minute-by-minute.
I’m for it.
[re=496271]Larry McAwful[/re]: No worry about setting precedent. This is exactly the kind of shit the Republicans would pull if they were in so we’d be fools not to.
In fact, its the kind of thing the Democrats should have done long ago.
Go, Joe!
[re=496288]gurukalehuru[/re]: I figure if we blew up the filibuster, the Senate would be more answerable to the voters. Seriously. A senator wouldn’t be able to vote for a bill he might otherwise oppose just because the filibuster makes his opposition irrelevent.
THIS IS GREAT NEWS! But not for John MCain (in case you were wondering about this news, vis a vis John MCain.)
Awesome…let Joe be Joe. I hope the Repubatards threaten to hold their breath, turn blue and die.
[re=496268]Simba B[/re]: Well, that is also true, is it not?
It is.
“every single solitary decisions has required 60 senators”
Which is it, Joe, singular or plural? Fekking flip-floppers.
[re=496301]BlueStateLibtard[/re]: Now see, that’s the kind of filibuster I’d like to see.
Could this be the work of hormone replacement therapy? If so, put all the Democrats on it.
[re=496325]Jukesgrrl[/re]: or`false`courage`from`hair`replacement`therapy..
Am I the only person in the USA who remembers that the Republics under Bill Frist (icky place to be, but I digress) threatened to kill the filibuster rule over court appointments–even after Bush had gotten far more of his dickwads approved than Clinton ever did?
Dig up a little history, Joey (whom I love, btw–at least the man doesn’t run every statement through a series of mental focus groups before he says it) and ram it down the Republics throats. Of course, he’ll have to knock the lobbyists’ dicks out of the way so there’s room.
[re=496284]snideinplainsight[/re]: I agree. And it would also bring the Democratic base completely back on board. The Republics are ruthless and will do anything while the DemocratIC party plays nice.
I think that’s what “the base” is against–rolling over for those sobs. A wonkeratti compared it to Charley Brown trusting Lucy to hold the football. How many times have we been fucked by these shits? Even a trailer trash battered wife would have set the bed on fire by now.
Shit–where’d everybody go? I lay awake at 5:00 this morning and contemplated that I have no one to rely on in my pathetic existence but the wonkeratti. Forcing me to talk to myself is harsh.
[re=496279]plowman[/re]: Exactly. I believe this is coming back for the conservatives being such bitches about the filibuster before.
Filibiden
After he gets done busting up the filibuster I would like to see him throw a serious beat down of Mitch McConnell. And put it on YouTube. Suckas.
I would pay a month’s salary to see Joe go all-Biden on the Senate and rip everyone a new asshole. God knows these pricks need to get slapped around, and if you catch Harry “fat dog” Reid in the crossfire, more’s the better.
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