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Bucky

(53,947 posts) Tue Jan 22, 2013, 08:33 AM Jan 2013

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Complete this simile: Having the filibuster in the Senate is like...

Having the filibuster in the Senate is like giving your junkie brother who's crashing on your couch the rent money and asking him to please drop it all off at the landlord's this month.

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Complete this simile: Having the filibuster in the Senate is like... (Original Post) Bucky Jan 2013 OP

Feeling "backed up" and completely out of bran muffins... catbyte Jan 2013 #1

I like the president's analogy a few years back: It's like ordering all the expensive stuff off the Liberal_Stalwart71 Jan 2013 #2

Morons having guns cherish44 Jan 2013 #3

It's like leaving books of matches around where your pyromanic kid can reach them. smokey nj Jan 2013 #4

catbyte

(34,334 posts)

1. Feeling "backed up" and completely out of bran muffins...

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Tue Jan 22, 2013, 09:43 AM

Jan 2013

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)

2. I like the president's analogy a few years back: It's like ordering all the expensive stuff off the

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 09:44 AM

Jan 2013

menu, then refusing to pay the bill.

cherish44

(2,566 posts)

3. Morons having guns

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 09:48 AM

Jan 2013

Oh wait, we have that too....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/19/gun-show-shootings_n_2513057.html

smokey nj

(43,853 posts)

4. It's like leaving books of matches around where your pyromanic kid can reach them.

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 09:55 AM

Jan 2013

The filibuster should have been dealt with back in 2009 when Democrats controlled both houses. Not fixing it then was supremely irresponsible.

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