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Conservatives would say radicalized, that it s going to be impossible for democrats even in red states to support this guy without exacting having retribution against them. well, look. for the younger viewers. supreme court politics is different now the last couple of decade and you mentioned the blocking of garland. harry reid changing the rules for confirmation for other offices and loring the threshold to 50. other federal judges down to 50. the pressure on those democrats to break the filibust filibuster. because of what happened the last weekend, extraordinary pressure not just on chuck schumer but the red state democratic senators to hold the line andupport a filibuster. it s interesting to see how the president and his allies can pressure those same people and as chuck todd mentioned last night. you can t underestimate this. when this nominee does his one-on-one meetings with democratic senators i think he is going to be very persuasive. what you also can t understand ....
Didn t work. plenty of bipartisan support for brennan. but it attracted a ton of attention, elevated paul s profile and even provided a little laughter. i would go for another 12 hours to try to break strom thurmond s record, but i discovered there are some limits to filibustering, and i m going to have to take care of one of those in a few minutes here. and there was ted cruz who took to the floor in late september and did not stop speaking for 21 hours and 19 minutes. technically what cruz did wasn t actually a filibust, but same basic idea, the senate was about to pass a plan to keep the government open without defunding obama care. and cruz who pushed his party into the shutdown fight, was making a symbolic stand against the deal. and really that s what filibusters are supposed to be, how they re supposed to work. if one member or a small band of members of the senate doesn t like something about to pass, you can slow things down, you can draw attention to something they care a ....
Came to a head. i think if they secretly wanted this to happen or a lot of them did, a lost the republican senators did and the reason is simple. the republican base, the tea party base, the base that scared the bejesus out of republicans in congress with the threat of right wing primary challenges, that base wants and has wanted for the last five years an all-out war of obstruction against obama. which means that any vote by any republican senator to allow any obama nominee to advance in any way is a vote that could potentially come back to haunt that republican senator in a primary. to beat a filibust, democrats need five republicans to cross over. that s how they get to 60 votes. but that situation was untenable for republican senators. because it required that on any given nomination five of them step forward, involuntarily go on the record to kill a filibuster, to do something that the tea party base that they re terrified of doesn t want them doing. in the end, only two crossed o ....
We passed a full year s budget roughly in time for the fiscal year was 2007 for f yry-08. the last time the government passed a budget for half a fiscal year was 2008 for fy-09. democrats said we don t want a fight in the middle of 2008, bush, we ll take your budget at those low numbers and when we get a democrat budget we will plus it up. we haven t had a senate budget resolution in five years until this year. the house has passed a budget resolution, a framework to discuss a budget but the senate didn t even bother passing one until this year. in the event senator cruz does filibuster, then what happens? what would happen is, you know, first of all, you he would have to get 16 members of the senate to sign a letter with him to support a filibust filibuster i m sorry. that s for clocloture. ....
States senators are overcoming a filibuster to begin debate on a gun package today. to appreciate how crazy the filibuster was in practice, this was not a filibust over the bill, a filibuster of debating the bill. remarkably routine. what was remarkable was that the filibuster failed on the strength of support of most of the democrats and 16 republicans. only two democrats join ed ed b republicans in trying to block the debate, arkansas s mark pryor and alaska s mark begich. a deal was worked out between democrat joe manchin and republican pat toomey on expanding background checks. joe manchin, who is a gun positive democrat from west virginia with an a rating from the nra has been looking to make a deal like this for months, ever since the massacre of sandy hook elementary school in ....