cloture
Hooray, John McCain’s insane Obama-spite mission to keep gay soldiers from admitting they’re gay soldiers is over, because the cloture vote has succeeded on the latest attempt at repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. It is absolutely ridiculous that it took this long for members of our armed forces to attain basic human rights, but [...]
Harry Reid is going to finally try to get a cloture vote passed to be able to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell today some day soon, at long last, but there’s a very good chance it will fail, because our modern democracy is so advanced that it doesn’t work and can’t rule on matters of [...]
THE SYSTEM WORKS! America can sleep soundly tonight knowing that our nation’s servicemen do not want to have sex with each other — at least not for a few more months. The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal bill before the Senate failed its cloture vote this afternoon 56-43. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln voted against [...]
America’s new Ted Kennedy, Senator Scott Brown, just can’t stop himself from enraging the tri-corner Internet lamers who rallied nationwide to help him defeat some Democrat lady who didn’t even really try to win. Brown’s latest treachery was voting to stop Republicans from preventing passage of the middle-of-the-road Financial Regulation bill. HOW COULD HE DO [...]
Furry Massachusetts socialist Scott Brown switched his vote to “yes” on the latest financial regulatory reform motion to proceed, after LYING to elderly Mormon vote-counter Harry Reid and voting “no” during last night’s attempt. Today’s final count was 60 to 40, just enough to break a filibuster, making Brown’s switch the deciding factor. Let’s see [...]
Harry Reid got so sick of Chris Dodd and Richard Shelby dawdling all week over the two or three specific conjunctions and adverbs they need to clear up to finalize their alleged Agreement that he has gone ahead and scheduled a first cloture vote on the original Dodd committee bill for Monday, around 5 p.m. [...]
SO MUCH FOR THAT ONE: Sen. Arlen Specter has flipped his long-held stance siding with unions on the Employee Free Choice Act and will now vote against invoking cloture on the measure, which is kind of important, because he very well may have been the deciding vote over a filibuster. It may have been to [...]
