Tag Archive | Filibuster
Posted on March 28, 2013. Tags: Affordable Care, Budget Reconciliation Process, Byzantine, Care Act, Directness, Election Day, Filibuster, Finality, Frates, Good Reason, Health Care Law, Health Insurance, Landmark Decision, Majority Vote, Mandate, Mitch Mcconnell, Obama, Republican Plan, Senate Chamber, Senate Republican Leader, Top Aides
National Journal has must-read story today titled, “The Secret Republican Plan to Repeal ‘Obamacare’ And why the fight is far from over.” National Journal’s Chris Frates writes, “A few minutes after the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision upholding President Obama’s health care law last summer, a senior adviser to Mitch McConnell walked into […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on March 7, 2013. Tags: American Soil, Cloture, Colleague, Drones, Executive Branch, Filibuster, Intelligence Activities, John Brennan, Mitch Mcconnell, Nomination, Oversight, Procedural Motion, Roll Call, Senate Minority Leader, Senate Minority Leader Mitch, Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell, Senate Republican Leader, Senate Republicans, Senator Paul, Wednesday Evening
In an historic moment echoing the Senate’s great history of long, passionate speeches, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) held the floor for nearly 13 hours yesterday in a filibuster demanding answers from the Obama administration on its legal authority to use force against U.S. citizens overseas. Roll Call wrote last night, “Senate Minority Leader Mitch […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on November 12, 2012. Tags: Al Franken, Barack Obama, Bill Bolling, Carpetbagger, Crying Shame, Filibuster, Governor Bill, Governorship, Harry Reid, Incumbent President, Ken Cuccinelli, Lame Duck, Lt Governor, Mandates, Nancy Pelosi, Pity Party, Second Term, Terry Mcauliffe, Virginia House Of Delegates, Virginia Senate
Four years ago the Republican Party entered a self imposed funk. Much like they are in now. So we didn’t knock off an incumbent president. That’s a shame. A crying shame. But the time for crying is over. Now it’s time to buck up and assess where we are. It seems pretty dark, but we are a […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on November 9, 2012. Tags: Attitude Problem, Core Problem, Difference Between The House And Senate, Don Stewart, Filibuster, Harry Reid, Mitch Mcconnell, Obama, Senate Floor, Senate Majority Leader, Senate Majority Leader Harry, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader, Senate Minority Leader Mitch, Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell, Senate Republican Leader, Senate Republicans, Senate Rules, stimulus, Washington Times
The Washington Times writes, “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP’s ability to filibuster bills. . . . ‘I think that the rules have been abused and that we’re going to work to change them,’ he told reporters. . . […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on September 19, 2012. Tags: Appropriations Bills, Budget Numbers, Campaign Trail, Congressional Record, Filibuster, Filibusters, Flashback, Good Faith, Harry Reid, Incumbents, Legislative Agenda, Majority Leader, Nevada Democrat, New York Times, Nyt, Record Books, Senate Democrats, Senator Harry Reid, Th Congress, Washington Post
The New York Times writes today, “The 112th Congress is set to enter the Congressional record books as the least productive body in a generation, passing a mere 173 public laws as of last month. . . . Appropriations bills, once the central function of the legislative branch, have been ditched in favor of short-term spending […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on March 14, 2012. Tags: Bipartisan Basis, Cloture, Democratic Counterparts, District Court Judges, Filibuster, Gridlock, Harry Reid, Judicial Nominations, Judicial Nominees, Last Thursday, Mitch Mcconnell, Nev, Obama, Overwhelming Passage, Senate Democrats, Senate Gop Leaders, Senate Majority Leader, Senate Majority Leader Harry, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Republican Leader
Today, Senate Democrats and President Obama showcased their misplaced priorities after they pushed for a long series of cloture votes on district court judges instead of moving forward on a bipartisan House-passed bill that would create jobs. The Hill writes today, “Senate GOP leaders attacked their Democratic counterparts on Tuesday for scheduling action on […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on January 6, 2011. Tags: Black Swans, Colossus, council, Council Homepage, Council Member, Council Members, E Mail, Edition, Filibuster, Grouch, Honorable Mention, Honorable Mentions, Information War, Joshuapundit, New Years Eve, NominationsHello, Political Commentator, Random Events, S Council, Sarah Palin, Silver Knight, Swans, Watchers, Weekly Contest, White Horse
Watcher’s Council Nominations…Hello 2011 Edition JoshuaPundit on Jan 05 2011 at 1:00 am | Filed under: Nominations Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on January 4, 2011. Tags: Arses, Biennium, Bipartisanship, Continuous Body, Cooler Heads, Darth Vader, Deliberative Body, Dirty Harry, Election Year, Even Keel, Filibuster, Filibuster Rules, Founding Fathers, Harry Reid, Moderate Liberal, Olympia Snowe, Pocketbooks, Progressives, Radical Agenda, Republican Minority, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sarah Palin, Squishy, Supreme Court Justice, Susan Collins, Unintended Consequences, Us Constitution, Us Senate, Wing Republicans, Witches Of Eastwick
How cool would that be? Would Liberals brain’s explode, or what? First and foremost, you must understand what is behind the proposed change in the Filibuster rules Dirty Harry Reid is about to introduce (or a Reid surrogate). It is all about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or Darth Vader Ginsburg as she is known in the […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on January 4, 2011. Tags: Claire Mccaskill, Cloture, Dangerous Precedent, Democrat, Filibuster, Filibusters, New Mexico, New York Times, Obstacles, Power Grab, Proposal, Republican Leaders, Republicans, Senate Democrats, Senate Rules, senate-majority, Senators, Tactic, Tom Udall, Tyranny Of The Majority
The New York Times reports today, “A band of Senate Democrats signaled on Monday that it would press forward when Congress convenes this week with a proposal to curtail filibusters and other methods of slowing the chamber’s work . . . . Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, said that he intended to call […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted in News, Senate News Briefing
Posted on December 22, 2010. Tags: Americans For Prosperity, Breathtaking Series, Congressional Review Act, Constitutional System, Coup D, Darkest Day, Disapproval, Executive Branch, Fcc, Filibuster, Grabs, Heavy Hand, Imposition, Kerpen, Market Internet, Net Neutrality, Network Neutrality, Top Priority, Vp Policy, Washington Times
AFP VP Policy Phil Kerpen issued the following statement on the FCC’s expected network neutrality order: “The FCC has fittingly chosen the darkest day in 372 years to impose potentially devastating regulations on the up-to-now free-market Internet. As the moon was eclipsed earlier today, Congress and the American people will be eclipsed by this regulatory […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on December 10, 2010. Tags: American Taxpayers, Cloture On The Motion, Constituents, Fellow Democrats, Filibuster, Floor Speech, Food Regulation, Grab Bag, Harry Reid, Lame Duck Session, Mitch Mcconnell, Priorities, Private Sector Job, Senate Democrats, Senate Majority Leader, Senate Majority Leader Harry, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Republican Leader, Senate Republicans, Special Interest Groups
In a floor speech yesterday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, “It’s perfectly clear by now that our friends on the other side are more interested in pleasing special interest groups than in addressing our nation’s jobs crisis. Once again they’re insisting that the Senate spend its last remaining days before the end of the […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on November 5, 2010. Tags: Caucus, Caveat, Democratic Seats, Democrats, Dianne Feinstein, Filibuster, Free Campaign, Grabs, Independents, Kirstin Gillibrand, Last Time, Possibilities, Pundits, Reelection, Republicans, Retirements, Senate Seats, Vulnerability, White House, Wild Card
While the pundits and analysts look over the 2010 elections and try to figure out how good or how bad it was for each side, many seem to have taken their eye off of the massive vulnerability the Democrats will face in 2012. Of the 33 seats presently scheduled for the 2012 election, a whopping […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on August 22, 2010. Tags: Best Case Scenario, Colorado Florida, Connecticut, Delaware, Democrat, Democrats, Filibuster, Florida Today, Grabs, Leaves, Math, Maximum, No Doubt, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Proof, Republican Hands, Republicans, Sure Thing, Us Senate
This is not a prediction nor have I lost my mind completely. This post simply answers the question: What is the best case scenario for Republicans in the Senate in November? Or conversely, how bad could it get for Democrats in the Senate? As of today, August 22, 2010 Republicans could pick up a maximum […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on July 20, 2010. Tags: Ap Points, Callous Disregard, Filibuster, Hostage, John Thune, Midst, Month Of June, Obama, Plight, Podium, Recession, Rose Garden, Senate Republicans, Stimulus Bill, Trillion, Unemployment Benefits, Usa Today, Vacation Spot, Washington Politics, Weekend Trip
This morning, President Obama went to the podium in the Rose Garden to accuse Senate Republicans of blocking an extension of unemployment benefits. USA Today writes, “A Republican filibuster that has three times blocked the extension ‘reflects a lack of faith in the American people,’ Obama said. ‘They’re not looking for a handout. They desperately […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on March 18, 2010. Tags: Answer Questions, Attempt, Beck, Clone, Earthquake In Hawaii, Exposed, Filibuster, God Bless, Health care, Interviews, Liar, Obama, Tough Questions, Weasel
Bret Baier for President! God bless him! His interview with Obama exposed Obama for the idiot he is (Earthquake in Hawaii???) and also exposed Obama’s inability to answer tough questions. From the beginning, Obama’s plan was clear. Ignore the questions and attempt to spew the same lies he has been telling about Health Care. About […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.
Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted in Health, Opinion
Posted on March 3, 2010. Tags: Blog, Effrontery, Essential Services, Filibuster, Graft, Harry Reid, Jeff Smith, Jesus, Jim Bunning, Legislation, Mainstream Media, Majority Leader, Measures, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Nightly News, Patty Murray, Political Reason, Postponement, Principle, Readership, Republican Senator, Sen Bunning, Sen Schumer, Senate, Senate Floor, Senator Jim Bunning, Stalemate, Standstill, Tom White, Unemployment Benefits, Washington Post
I am first excited to be here at Virginia Right assisting Tom White in his blog. I hope I increase and not decrease the readership! May Jesus be praised by all my posts! Here’s my FIRST post. The nightly news painted Senator Jim Bunning as slightly off his rocker. Holding up crucial legislation just to […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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