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dsc

(52,166 posts) Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:41 PM Jul 2013

The Senate will be voting on the filibuster tommorow

and 40 minutes into all in not one word on it, or for that matter anything else in the news aside from the Zimmerman trial. Yes, the Zimmerman trial matters but really.

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The Senate will be voting on the filibuster tommorow (Original Post) dsc Jul 2013 OP

Mark my words, it will all go Republicans way. Anansi1171 Jul 2013 #1

I think we will get 7 confirmed nominees dsc Jul 2013 #2

Anansi1171

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1. Mark my words, it will all go Republicans way.

Reply to dsc (Original post)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:45 PM

Jul 2013

That is, no Nuclear option until they retake the Senate in 2014. THEN, they will vote away the Filibuster. And then they will be rolling towards a new Confederacy!

dsc

(52,166 posts)

2. I think we will get 7 confirmed nominees

Reply to Anansi1171 (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 08:48 PM

Jul 2013

or we will get a change but either way, we are now 47 minutes in and still on a similar subject (this time the case of the woman who got 20 years for the warning shot).

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