{"id":412750,"date":"2010-03-10T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T21:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=72155"},"modified":"2010-03-10T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T21:18:56","slug":"and-your-objection-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/412750","title":{"rendered":"And Your Objection Is?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senatus Populusque Romanus – Incedio Consumptum Restituit : loosely translated as "The Senate and People of Rome restored what fire had consumed" (photo: Xerones via Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

GOP Senators threaten that using reconciliation to pass health care reform, or student loan reform, would be the end of the Senate as we know it.<\/p>\n

Lindsay Graham, in Politico (sorry, no link):<\/p>\n

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\u201cMany Republicans who were ready to pull the trigger on the nuclear option on judges are now glad they didn\u2019t,\u201d Graham said. \u201cThis place would have ceased to function as we know it. If they do health care through reconciliation, it will be the same consequence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

GlueHorse McCain<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“To go to the 51 votes, instead of this traditional 60 in the United States Senate, will have cataclysmic effects.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

John Thune promises flying fur<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“If they go down that road, I think the fur is going to fly,” Senate Republican Conference Vice Chairman John Thune (S.D.) said. “I suspect that there is going to be an awful lot of resistance, and we will exercise our prerogatives so that the rules of the Senate are respected.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Judd Gregg (who you’ll note is identified in the approved Village manner as Obama’s first choice as Commerce Secretary in this WaPo segment<\/a>)…<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThat would be the Chicago approach to governing: Strong-arm it through,\u201d said Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), who briefly considered joining the Obama administration as commerce secretary. \u201cYou\u2019re talking about the exact opposite of bipartisan. You\u2019re talking about running over the minority, putting them in cement and throwing them in the Chicago River<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All this dire Senate dysfunction! Imagine the United States Senate thrown off its smoothly running processes! Just think, the Senate might actually pass something!<\/p>\n

These superannuated, pampered snotwaggles are so out-of-touch, they think their empty threat that the Senate as we know it would end is a BAD thing. For the American people, that is an outcome devoutly to be wished.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact, that’s the point, you mooks.<\/p>\n

Tags: GlueHorse<\/a>, health care reform<\/a>, John McCain<\/a>, John Thune<\/a>, Judd Gregg<\/a>, Lindsey Graham<\/a>, Mitch MConnell<\/a>, nuclear option<\/a>, obstructionism<\/a>, Reconciliation<\/a><\/p>\n

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Senatus Populusque Romanus – Incedio Consumptum Restituit : loosely translated as "The Senate and People of Rome restored what fire had consumed" (photo: Xerones via Flickr) GOP Senators threaten that using reconciliation to pass health care reform, or student loan reform, would be the end of the Senate as we know it. Lindsay Graham, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}