Lindsey Graham is Mad That Harry Reid Said the GOP Should "Stop Crying" About Reconciliation
Lindsey Graham is asked to respond to Harry Reid's statement that the GOP Should "Stop Crying" About Reconciliation:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Tuesday that Republicans "should stop crying" about the possible use of the parliamentary procedure known as budget reconciliation to pass a health care reform bill.
Reid said reconciliation had been used 21 times since 1981, mostly by Republicans when they were in control of the Senate for the passage of items like the Bush tax cuts. (Here's a handy chart of when the procedure has been used.)
Under reconciliation, Democrats would need a simple majority in the Senate to pass legislation, as opposed to the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. "They should stop crying about reconciliation as if it's never been done before," Reid said.
Of course Graham thinks this will be the "end of minority rights in the Senate" after the Republicans being the most obstructionist in history and the Democrats accepting 160 Republican amendments to this mess of a health care bill which is unfortunately already bipartisan. These Republicans continually count on the country listening to what they say as opposed to what they do. That doesn't stop Graham from calling getting what is a bipartisan bill passed on health care "arrogance on steroids" and calling this the "end of the Senate as you know it".
Sorry Lindsey. This has just been more of the Senate as we know it where what might be good bills go to die a slow death and Senators from states representing much less of the population than most of the large cities in the United States can muck up legislation for the rest of us who are not equally represented there. I'm just sick to death of the Democrats accepting Republican ideas without demanding some votes in return for caving into their wishes. It allows the likes of Graham here to continue to do their revisionist history on how none of their ideas were accepted.
He gets so angry his tiny little head explodes!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness, it has almost totally destroied our economy, our morals, and the sprituality of America!
He says that like it's a bad thing.
We could only be so fortunate.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
about crying...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Stop WHINING LIKE A FOUR YEAR OLD about reconciliation
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Lindsey, I'm still asking... are you ready to tell yet?
... don't ask.
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wins one seat in the senate. Does Lindsey realize that there are 49 others that may not agree with him?
No, the end of the senate would be GETTING RID OF IT, which is exactly what we should do.
The senate is an anachronism that the slave states wanted to give them disproportionate representation. We should get rid of it and have only the House of Reps, elected according to proportional representation.
The Senate formed in 1787 when the US Constitution was ratified.
It was to guarantee all state governments, losing the status they enjoyed under the Articles of Confederation to a House with equal representation rather than by their populace.
It also gave State legislatures power over this house since the Senators were appointed by State Legislature.
It was similar to the House of Lords, but was primarily a buffer for what the Founding Father's called "mobocracy." They were designed to check the impetuosity of the House.
At the time there was a transition between indentured servants and slaves.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
51 is a majority. I am so tired of republican senators whining about health care reform. Take thier health care away and they would have a reason to whine and cry. Congress has the best health care money can buy. WE PAY FOR IT11
pennlady
Oh and by the way they have health care for life.
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STFU you stupid lying bastards.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness, it has almost totally destroied our economy, our morals, and the sprituality of America!
Now have a nice day.
Why, he might just get the vapors...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Lindsey Graham: "end of minority rights in the Senate"
I never thought I'd live to see a DixieCrat whine about his "minority rights" being abused.
.. makes as much sense as a corporation complaining its freedom of speech was being abused ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
and lopsided mouth. what a freakish woman. but im sure she already has plenty since shes paid so highly by her network. of course millions of other Americans cant say that. but who cares about them, the GOP sure doesnt. Lindsey, you poof.
If you don't want to help bail out the ship of state, get off the fucking boat. Boot up the ass time. Be nice if Reid used that tone.
Indeed it is a sad day for inbred pinhead hillbilly state politicians. We need to give them air time to wail and complain that nobody understands what it's like to be an inbred pinhead hillbilly from an inbred hillbilly state. People in large metropolitan areas don't know about inbreeding and donkey screwing, methaphetimines, oxycontins, pedophilia and such. Let the closeted Lindsey get it off his closeted chest. Let the healing begin.
Then smoke through the reconciliation so they don't know what hit their inbred hillbilly minority asses.
WTF?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
ROTFLMAO!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Lindsey's loading dock is in the rear. All aboard.
Perhaps a more specific form.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGcn15ODltA
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Graham has no idea of what the public wants in health care reform. He just knows if the Democrats pass a plan his fellow GOPers with be shown as the fakes and liars they are about the Democratic reform plan. The GOP is always getting in the way of important and necessary change. Like Social Security, Medicare, voting rights. When Corp America needs help they always have the GOP and when America needs help we have the GOP again but they stand in the way of help.
Put that last line on a bumper sticker.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Only SUV's and hummers have bumpers long enough for it.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
If this whinerbaby really wants something to cry about he should look at some of his idiot colleagues in his own state---like Joe "You Lie" Wilson, Mark "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" Sanford, and their dumbass Lt. Gov Andre "Stray Animal" Bauer.
I'd be hard pressed to come up with a more dysfunctional group of morons that's concentrated in one state. The trifecta of stupid. Add in dipshit Lindsey and you have the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
to bite us all in the ass if the Republicans sweep Congress this November. Especially if there's a Republican president elected in 2012.
Remember the ol' adage: What goes around comes around.
If the Democrats can pass this corporate health insurance bailout when every poll shows the "majority" of the public are opposed to it, what monstrosity of a bill might a Republican Congress/White House pass that we will all hate in 2013??
I dread the thought....
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
It hits them where it hurts - their thin (all) white skinned male bravado! Hard to be a macho hierarchical water carrying repub when your leader is a crybaby.
oops not really a response to you Abbybwood.
if what goes around comes around, we would alredy have healthcaree reform and it would probably be single payer.
the same way that the threat of the so called 'nuclear option' has come back around after going around?
oh, wait...
will prevent the election of Rethugs in 2010 and 2012. It's up to Dems to do the right thing with it NOW.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness, it has almost totally destroied our economy, our morals, and the sprituality of America!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness
How can anyone take her serious?
but Lindsey is also fabulous! FABULOUS, I tells ya!
Lindsey and David Dreier(R)Ca................ lovely couple.
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
If you want a lesson on reconciliation tonight you must watch Rachel Maddow. She will be on at about 8:00 PM Pacific time. It is the repeat of the 6:00 PM show. Superb!
Tell you what Lindsay "Scarlett O'Hara" Graham;" we won't use reconciliation on HCR, if you republicans give back the $2.1 trillion in tax cuts that was passed through reconciliation for the super rich. You know, that $2.1 trillion Bush and you GOPer's stole from the rest of us - through reconciliation of course.
Also, you will have to repeal every other corporate fascist radical legislation you GOPer's passed through reconciliation with 51 or 52 votes.
That would basically be the enitre GOP agenda under Bush.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Or, as Rachel Maddow's show came up with - the Tarantino! Kill Bills. Plain and simple. The Republican party now is employing and constantly using "The Tarantino".
Nice work, Repub Slimes. Sorry, America.
Has this Brainless tweeb have HIS EMPLOYERS the Insurance Industries Clearance to speak.
Why can't he just go back to the secret KKK Congressional chamber with his other ANTI AMERICAN, Fear and Hate Mongering IDIOTS.
I now have a clearer understanding that you MUST HATE America to be a republiCANT a worthless piece of sewerage that got into Congress under False pretenses.
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