How goes the filibuster?Follow

LOL I love it if the roles were reversed I would imagine every single one of you would take opposing stances to the comments you just made. Party politics is fun, blame it on them but in four years we have to defend ourselves. Thus continues the never ending cycle of *********

I can't wait for 1 year when the repubs are ******** about the dems filibuster and the dems defend it.

the Brunching Shuttlecocks know the difference between Bork and Björk, one which eludes our right wing friend.

Well except for the fact that I don't murder anyone and have this crazy idea that people should be held accountable for their actions. Something neither demcorats nor suicide bombers can relate to.

You're new here, so I will excuse your ignorance and the stupid things

Palin or Pelosi those are your choices.

Republican senators sent signals Wednesday that they may relent in blocking a Wall Street reform bill from moving to the floor.

Several GOP senators expressed frustration about the stalled negotiations, and indicated they feel it is likely the legislation approved in a party-line vote by the Senate Banking Committee will eventually hit the floor for debate.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), a member of the Banking Committee and key negotiator on financial legislation, went so far as to question why Republicans were talking about putting their own legislation together.
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"I will say that probably, just based on the comment you referred to and others, at some point, there's no question, the bill will come to the floor," Corker said on CNBC. "And with the numbers that exist, who knows what type of legislation we'll end up with?"
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Shelby said himself that the bill would have to come to the floor eventually, though he acknowledged that a deal on the whole bill was not yet close.

"We're going to keep talking and see what happens," he said during an appearance on MSNBC. "And sooner or later, the bill's probably going to have to come to the floor."
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The American people "want us to get something done," Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) told CNN on Tuesday night. He also said that the repeated votes were "counterproductive," and that he may vote for the motion to proceed if bipartisan talks are unproductive.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), another senator who'd been seen as a possible defector, also said that talks can't go on forever.

It's interesting that the article only focuses on the GOP "fatigue". I suspect that's going on with both parties.

Senate Republicans took what they could get.

With bipartisan negotiations at an impasse and Democrats pledging to force votes until they relented, Republicans ended their standoff Wednesday over a financial regulatory reform bill, agreeing to allow a debate to begin on the politically popular measure.

Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Banking Committee, walked from the negotiations after deciding that Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) would make no further concessions on the scope and powers of a new consumer protection agency.

Dodd was under pressure from the Democratic caucus to not weaken the bill in any significant way, believing that there was no need to do so. The politics of the issue were so lopsided in their favor that Republicans would eventually have to fold without much to show for it, Democrats believed.

And by late Wednesday – after three days of negative headlines and an 11-hour grilling Tuesday of Goldman Sachs executives by frustrated senators – Republicans backed down. They won a few concessions, most notably the removal of a $50 billion industry-financed fund to wind down doomed companies. But not the kind of sweeping changes that would appear to move the bill significantly in their direction.

The standoff ended with a whimper, as Republicans agreed to proceed to the bill on a voice vote, declining an opportunity to put their position on the record.