I Say If The Repugs Threaten Filibuster On The Stimulus Package........

[global1]

let them get up there an embarrass themselves 24/7 until they give it up. Call their bluff. Let them get blamed for not moving swiftly.

[geek tragedy]

1. Run it throught he budgetary process where you only need 51.

Fuck 'em.

[Shiver]

10. The nuclear option?

:nuke:

[geek tragedy]

14. No, the nuclear option gets rid of the filibuster

completely through procedural votes. The budget process is a pre-existing scheme that ensures that a budget can get passed every year.

[Shiver]

15. Can the budgeting process be used for this bill?

This technically isn't a budget, after all.

[geek tragedy]

16. Yes we can! n/t

[uponit7771]

19. THANK YOU!!! America needs smart progressives

[Richardo]

2. ...and screw that procedural filibuster crap. Make them take the floor and speak the whole time

They should have to work at being obstructionists.

[bridgit]

13. Most Agreed! I wanna see from them the most tweaked out, beady-eyed, 3-day bearded gibberish since

Nixon; I wanna see them lapse back into what they are truly: whining cry baby obstructionsist...and they have a good head start too :thumbsup:

How did filibustering become a part time job anyway between rest stops in your senate office splashing cool water on your face from a sink you bought on a junket to Rome?

[Cleita]

3. Dream on. Harry Reid isn't going to do anything like that. n/t

[Renew Deal]

4. Or kill the filibuster once and for all.

It's become a bulwark to progress and is not in the constitution.

[Renew Deal]

5. Are they threatening filibuster?

[global1]

6. Not Yet - But I Feel It Coming.......nt

[JSK]

7. Well then

we'd better start calling that pansy Reid right now.

[WI_DEM]

8. Are all Republicans against the bill? What about Collins and Snowe?

[LittleBlue]

9. Agreed. Make them filibuster

in the old sense... by actually standing there and making fools of themselves.

[Ioo]

11. Reid has not nuts... he is smooth down there like a Ken Doll. - I AGREE!

LET THEM

[alwysdrunk]

12. They wouldn't dare

The public is hearing bad ecomonic news all day every day. Here the newly elected president is trying to do something about it and they are going to filibuster? Not a chance.

[backscatter712]

17. I doubt McConnell & co. could sustain a filibuster.

There's too much pressure for the stimulus bill to pass ASAP. If they try to block it, Obama will tear them to pieces. A few Rethugs might try, but they'll get clotured. Even Reid can manage a cloture on this one.

[AZBlue]

18. If they do, it will be a gift to this adminstration.

Talk about creating your own nightmare publicity. The GOP will learn quickly that the phrase "no publicity is bad publicity" is completely false.