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Senator Tuberville: No truce over military blockade on abortion
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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He will NOT be appointing officials for an organization that kills people until the government stops allowing abortions. Just let the logic sink in for a while. The guy's a POS, and nobody should be surprised that a single issue candidate is only interested in a single issue.
Not to mention that because of the standing rules of the Senate, all you have to do is send an email saying you’re filibustering and any one person can bring to halt something all the other 99 Senators just want to move on to the next topic.
Literally this guy stands alone on this and the brain dead rules allow him and him alone to bring it all to a halt.
And the rules won't change because most of the Senate loves that someone else can halt things, take the heat, and then they won't have to deal with unpopular decisions.
Not in this case, but they're literally willing to force the military fuck over career professionals so that they can keep their cushy plausible deniability.
Well no, they could hold a cloture vote any time on every nominee. They need 67 senators to vote to end the filibuster.
They haven’t forced cloture because enough republicans support him in the background and wouldn’t vote for it.
They could also change the rules with a simple majority and do what needs done, but that's going to be a last resort desperate measure.
It funny/sad that allowing the Senate to function in the absence of a supermajority is seen as a desperate measure. Too me it seems like the only reasonable thing to do.
I agree, everything doesn't need to be done by a super majority
So many self-serving rules. And honestly, if we held any of them accountable to their campaign promises we might actually have a functioning congress. But here we are.
This is the real problem, and it's infuriating. Not only because of the way it stops the Senate from doing so many things, but because so many people now believe it's how the filibuster had always worked. And so people hate it.
But, in fact, the filibuster, in its original form, is a powerful tool the minority can use to make its voice heard and perhaps even effect change. It needs to come back - make Tuberville stand up and talk for hours on end for each of these appointees he opposes. Make McTurtle totter to center stage and wheeze for as long as he can the next time he wants to block a Democrat President's Supreme Court Judge.
I'll bring the popcorn.