According to the Whispering Reid, The Reid that blows in the wind…or the Reid that just simply blows, Sen. Reid will block the efforts by Dem Senators to reform the filibuster.

You see, this human tribute to invertebrates everywhere wants to make sure that the tyranny of democracy will never reek its destructive power in the Senate.

Yes, this walking Senatorial reminder to neuter your dogs wants to protect America from a Senate that could actually pass the agenda they’ve been mandated by the majority of Americans to pass.

This Prince of Procrastination, this Disciple of Dithering, this Fakir of Futility has decided that he likes the way everything’s gone over the last year and wants the next three years to be just like it. He supports the public’s growing distrust of government to get anything done. He is giving notice to the nation that The Senate is no place for such unAmerican concepts as majority rule, progress and obeying the will of the people.

It’s so unfair that he will likely be voted out in November…I’ve lost the receipt for this barrel of tar and sack of feathers and I just know I’ll never get around to selling them on eBay.

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April 13, 2005
Statement of Senator Barack Obama

“What they don’t expect is for one party – be it Republican or Democrat – to change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet. The American people want less partisanship in this town, but everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster – if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate – then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse.”

“One day Democrats will be in the majority again, and this rule change will be no fairer to a Republican minority than it is to a Democratic minority.”

“it certainly isn’t what the patriots who founded this democracy had in mind.”

If the Dem’s are smart they will make maximum use of GOP filibusters in elections and campaigns this year…
Maybe instead of the “Nuke Option” they could place a numerical limit on use of Filibuster each session… Say like 20 or even one per Senator…

SanityNow
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very. very. disappointing.

and he is a Fakir isn’t he?

escribacat
Member

I had to look at up:
fa?kir

Khirad
Member

I thought it was a clever alliterative pun, and I wasn’t gonna make a fuss over the fact that we really could use a fakir!

Kalima
Admin

Ok, I just looked at the picture of “Hairy” again and is he flipping someone there and who is it, the right or the left or even clever Photoshop?

PatsyT
Member

Harry it could have gone so different . . . . .

You don’t understand
I coulda had class
I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody,
Instead of a bum, which is what I am.

escribacat
Member

What a great scene.

Kalima
Admin

Who’s side are you on “Hairy” and do wear your small pair to the right or the left. It’s time for “racist innuendo guy” Reid to pack his saddlebags and ride his darned skinny horse out of town.

KQµårk 死神
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Don’t worry the way things are going Republicans will win the Senate this year and break the filibuster rule.

PatsyT
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KQ, hold on, not so fast, not so fast
Now a days things change in a week!

escribacat
Member

Even I’m fed up with Harry now. Send the man home.

Khirad
Member

Me too, there was a time, maybe I imagined it, when I thought he had more of a spine. It’s one thing to pull delay tactics (GOP has become unprecedented in its application), another to lead. I still think Lawrence O’Donnell’s take on how hard it was to get the 60 in the first round should be taken into account in his defense, but when his time comes this November, I’ll simply say that he can mosey back to Searchlight and listen to the Cowboy Junkies to his heart’s delight.

A candle burning for everything I’ve ever wanted
A tattoo burned for everything I’ve ever wanted and lost
I had a long list of names that I kept in my back pocket,
But I’ve cut it down to one and your name’s at the top Won’t you share a common disaster?
Share with me a common disaster
A common disaster

I found myself a friend,
But he’s crooked as a stick in water
So now I’m writing fairy tales
To catch the spirit of revenge
He’s got a plan to steal my little sister,
But I’m not too concerned ’cause I will get him in the end

escribacat
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Great song. I love her voice. Something addicting about it.

Khirad
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Whatever my problems with Reid, he has great taste in music. Voice with song reminds me of a more sultry Portishead, an Alt-Country shoegaze, one might put it. I know what you mean, and I’m not coming up with the words or categories or other singers right now to identify it properly. They’re on the tip of my tongue, or somewhere in my noggin’ fuzzy, indistinct.

Edit: this is a little uncanny.