McConnell wants to weaken filibuster

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Good news.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/256631-senate-gop-opens-door-to-weakening-the-filibuster

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is opening the door to changing the filibuster in response to growing pressure from Republicans angered that Democrats have blocked legislation from reaching the White House.

McConnell has appointed a special task force to explore changes to the filibuster rule and other procedural hurdles — including whether to eliminate filibusters on motions to proceed to legislation. That’s a tactic the minority often uses to shut down a bill before amendments can be considered.

McConnell has tapped his close ally, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Senate Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) to form a task force with Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and two other freshmen to weigh various reforms. They hope to implement the changes at the start of next year.

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The hell didn't you do this when the Democrats blocked literally the most significant piece of legislation to come through Congress in the last decade?

What piece of legislation is that exactly?

Apparently the Zionist means the resolution of disapproval for the Iran deal.

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Oh look, the Zionists got angry for being called what they really are.
Maybe next time I'll call you neocons if you're so delicate flowers.

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Oh look, the Zionists got angry for being called what they really are.
Maybe next time I'll call you neocons if you're so delicate flowers.

Maybe it would be better to stop labeling posters at all, in such a caustic way. True, all Zionism means is that you support the existence of the Jewish Israeli state, as opposed to liquidating it (an opinion that is certainly mainstream, with which about what 80% of the US public agrees) but you mean it as an insult. There is no need to be so hostile to other posters personally. Just attack their ideas if you don't like them. I vehemently disagree with the subject poster as to all those Israeli settlements in the hinterlands of the West Bank (some of them illegal under Israeli law), but I don't call him an irredentist Zionist on steroids. I just focus on why I think that approach is unwise and wrong. Just a thought.

Almost everybody supports Israel's existence. Me too.
But the Zionists do it in an obnoxious and fanatical way, sometimes asking other nations to ignore their own interests in order to serve Israel's, which is exactly what happened during the Iran deal debate.

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How much have you been paying attention to Europe over the last few years? They're being terrorized and attacked on a regular basis, and Neo-Nazi parties are rising in many nations.

Besides Hungary where else has it happened?
Neo-nazis and other assorted far-right groups target almost exclusively Arab immigrants for years now

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Both countries need to change things. 1) Israel shouldn't get money from the US on a structural basis. 2) The US should respect Israel's dealing with its domestic problems, and the fact that Obama is constantly trying to exert his influence on Israeli politics (even on the outcome of the elections, by funnelling money into Netanyahu's main opponent's campaign - I am not a supporter of Netanyahu's party yet I find this to be outrageous) is not okay. Israel and the US (a country I, let no mistake arise from this, absolutely admire - I don't like this administration but I love America) should work together as equals. The main problem isn't US aid, it's the US trying to micromanage Israel and Israel being too dependent on the US. However, I'm more critical of the US' behavior in this regard, because Israel's (and my people's) existence is continuously on the line whereas the US' isn't.

Wow! You have some serious delusions dude.

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Both countries need to change things. 1) Israel shouldn't get money from the US on a structural basis. 2) The US should respect Israel's dealing with its domestic problems, and the fact that Obama is constantly trying to exert his influence on Israeli politics (even on the outcome of the elections, by funnelling money into Netanyahu's main opponent's campaign - I am not a supporter of Netanyahu's party yet I find this to be outrageous) is not okay. Israel and the US (a country I, let no mistake arise from this, absolutely admire - I don't like this administration but I love America) should work together as equals. The main problem isn't US aid, it's the US trying to micromanage Israel and Israel being too dependent on the US. However, I'm more critical of the US' behavior in this regard, because Israel's (and my people's) existence is continuously on the line whereas the US' isn't.

Wow! You have some serious delusions dude.

And you have some debts to pay me, dude!

Yeah, whatever. The doctor said to agree with everything you say.

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Yeah, whatever. The doctor said to agree with everything you say.

Nah, it's not the doctor but Merkel who said that. And your lousy Prime Minister complied, so your welfare from my money is soon going to end

Sure, sure. Now take your pills and a glass of milk and go back to bed.