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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 09:53 AM Original message |
Nelson: Health Care Reform Needs 65 Votes To Be Legitimate |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. Golly. Which clause of the Constitution says that, I wonder. |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 12:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
45. the Fuckwit amendment, IIRC |
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SIMPLYB1980 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
2. LOL! I may be the last to say it, but |
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wroberts189 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:17 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. since winning majorities the rats in our own party make themselves known. nt |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 12:41 PM Response to Reply #2 |
46. Probably because he would lose in a primary |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. My question is: |
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NightHawk63 (447 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:01 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Exactly!!! (nt) |
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Salviati (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:14 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. When so many republicans are fighting the public option, against the wishes of their constituants |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
5. Did the fool tell those seniors that their Medicare Part D wasn't legitimate because it only |
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HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
36. NO, IT WASN'T IN HIS SCRIPT |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
6. OK, here's one that will get 5 Republican votes |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
7. Fuck you Nelson. and the horse you rode in on |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:58 AM Response to Reply #7 |
39. Dude - Leave the horse out of it... |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. LOL I apologized, I even felt so |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
8. Who knew there were degrees in passage, and that a law's "legitimacy" depended on the margin it |
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wroberts189 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
9. Talk about moving the goal post..... wtf? knr nt |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
10. Nope, just needs 50, Ben |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
11. You know, George W. Bush never got anywhere near 65 percent |
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rvablue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
13. Why do some Democrats do this? I'm so fed up. n/t |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:50 AM Response to Reply #13 |
25. Because they aren't Democrats. |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 12:38 PM Response to Reply #25 |
44. b i n g o - they are moles nt |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
14. I really wish he'd just STFU. (nt) |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
15. *sigh* what the fuck does that even mean. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
16. Which is why Nelson will never be a president |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:28 AM Response to Original message |
17. Just another Bush-Democrat .. |
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skipos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
18. Good God, I'd like to see a list of bills that passed with less than 65 votes |
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jaxx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
19. Get his ass out of office. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
20. You can't trust anyone that wears a hairpiece.. |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:20 AM Response to Reply #20 |
28. +1 |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
21. and saying it makes it true! |
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Neecy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
22. Good luck with that, Ben |
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BeyondGeography (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
23. The nambiest of all the namby-pambys |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
24. I just heard Nelson arguing for a public option; gave support to Rockefeller's amendment. |
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Mass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #24 |
31. You saw Bill Nelson (FL). This is Ben Nelson (NE) |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:28 AM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Oops! Sorry about that - had them mixed up. n/t |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #24 |
37. That was Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL). This is Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Mutual of Omaha). nt |
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SIMPLYB1980 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Isn't it Bill Nelson (R-FL)? |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
27. hey ben, why not a fucking 100 votes? eh? fuck you mr. nelson |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
29. may he slip on a banana peel and fall on a hard, unforgiving surface. |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
30. Well, by that definition then Nelson should resign his seat because |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:27 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. great response!!! |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #30 |
41. You the MAN.... |
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rudy23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
32. Another episode of "When Democrats Sell Out, and Try To Explain It Away" |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
34. Rs: "Oh, and BTW, if it does get passed we'll repeal it at the earliest opportunity" |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
38. He didn't raise objections to the Republicans when they were exercising the Nuclear Option! |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
42. How come this SENATOR doesn't know how LEGISLATION works? |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
47. Hi Senator, how about you take those five Republican votes and shove them up your ass? |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
48. Unless all 105 senators vote for it, it won't be legitimate. n/t |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-29-09 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
49. 51 |
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