Pukes are threatening war if reconicillation is used for the Budget...

[TheCoxwain]

The question is - What can they really do?

Can they really filibuster every single initiative without paying a serious price? or are they just using the time-honored tactic used in poker - Bluff?


I think we hold all the electoral cards - So it is time we raised our game - it is time to make them fold - and possibly bend over too.

[truebrit71]

Bluff. Time to call these fuckers out...and then hang them out to dry..

...I am sick and tired of their obstructionist asses...

[The Magistrate]

1. Let them Try, Sir: Public Outrage Will Pin their Ears Back Good....

[T Wolf]

2. Bluffs are good enough to stop the Democrats in their tracks. Our party will continue

to keep their powder dry, at least until they have 85 Senators and 400 representatives.

Then, they might show some courage and push legislation through.

[pnutbutr]

3. WTF is reconicillation? nt

[TheCoxwain]

4. A tactic used to avoid filibuster as far as I am concerned

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(Senate)

Reconciliation is a legislative process of the United States Senate intended to allow a contentious budget bill to be considered without being subject to filibuster. Reconciliation also applies in the United States House of Representatives, but since the House regularly passes rules that constrain debate and amendment, the reconciliation process represented less of a change in that body.
A reconciliation instruction is a provision in a budget resolution directing one or more committees to submit legislation changing existing law in order to bring spending, revenues, or the debt-limit into conformity with the budget resolution. The instructions specify the committees to which they apply, indicate the appropriate dollar changes to be achieved, and usually provide a deadline by which the legislation is to be reported or submitted.<1>
A reconciliation bill is one containing changes in law recommended pursuant to reconciliation instructions in a budget resolution. If the instructions pertain to only one committee in a chamber, that committee reports the reconciliation bill. If the instructions pertain to more than one committee, the House Budget Committee reports an omnibus reconciliation bill, but it may not make substantive changes in the recommendations of the other committees.<2>

[pnutbutr]

6. oh

reconciliation, not reconicillation.

[TheCoxwain]

7. sorry .. my bad.

[Beetwasher]

5. Apparently RECONCILIATION Is A DONE DEAL!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8368771&mesg_id=8368771

[liberal N proud]

8. At this point they have nothing but obstruction

And that will only hurt their cause.

I say let them go for what ever they want to try. But they are the minority and it sucks to be them. LOL

[fasttense]

9. Well the Republicons are practically filibustering every single initiative anyway.

They might as well start doing it 100% of the time. :shrug:

[firedupdem]

10. Bring it you assholes! They used it all the time. n/t

[L0oniX]

11. LOL ...make my day assholes!

[DebbieCDC]

12. Anyone notice that their response to everything is to "threaten war"

Or "scorched earth" or "go nuclear". All these metaphors of death and destruction. Is that all they know?