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[NOT an April Fools] The republicans are planning to sidestep parliamentarian on current policy. [More inside] (www.commondreams.org)

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Schumer breaks news to Booker on Senate floor that Republicans are planning to sidestep parliamentarian on current policy.

“They don’t care anymore about norms, about rules, and even about going nuclear,” he says

Booker says it’s “further breaking of the Senate”

“Next time around, there’s no going back now”

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[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 85 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

During the Bush admin, conservatives LITERALLY FIRED the Parliamentarian

In 2001, he determined that Senate rules allow only one budget bill per year related to revenue to be immune from filibuster, a process known as reconciliation...Later that year, Dove ruled to remove a Republican provision to allocate over $5 billion in the 2002 budget for natural disasters. Following Republican anger about these rulings, he was dismissed by Republican Majority Leader Trent Lott

This fake ass advisor position serves at the discretion of the Senate Majority leader and always has

These FUCKING LOSERS don't even know their own rules or they presume we cannot remember more than a couple terms back

Or this is some pathetic attempt at face saving ("we didn't fire the Parliamentarian when we were in charge because noooorms sweaty")