Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 1023451" data-attributes="member: 17969">Obviously, you dont understand the filibuster process.&nbsp; Of course you think you do.. but what else is new.&quot;&quot;In understanding the filibuster process, you need to know that it takes 60 votes to kill a filibuster. Said another way, a minority party must have 41 votes to sustain a filibuster and avoid cloture. When a party has 41 members, all they have to do is threaten filibuster in order to bring the Senate to a halt. In the modern era, filibusters are, in reality, simply threats to filibuster and not Mr-Smith-Goes-to-Washington-type-speeches. Since the filibuster can only be sustained with 41 votes, my methodology is to credit the minority party holding the 41st vote with the filibusters&quot;&quot;The democrats do not have a 60 vote majority in the senate and it only takes 41 votes to sustain a filibuster.&nbsp; This is how you screw america.&nbsp; 41 republicans stopping progress and keeping american unemployed.PeaceTOS</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 1023451, member: 17969"] Obviously, you dont understand the filibuster process. Of course you think you do.. but what else is new. ""[FONT=Georgia]In understanding the filibuster process, you need to know that it takes 60 votes to kill a filibuster. Said another way, a minority party must have 41 votes to sustain a filibuster and avoid cloture. [B]When a party has 41 members, all they have to do is threaten filibuster in order to bring the Senate to a halt.[/B] In the modern era, filibusters are, in reality, simply [I]threats[/I] to filibuster and not Mr-Smith-Goes-to-Washington-type-speeches. Since the filibuster can only be sustained with 41 votes, my methodology is to credit the minority party holding the 41st vote with the filibusters[/FONT]"" The democrats do not have a 60 vote majority in the senate and it only takes 41 votes to sustain a filibuster. This is how you screw america. 41 republicans stopping progress and keeping american unemployed. Peace TOS [/QUOTE]

Verification