tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post8886801627676260478..comments2024-03-28T10:08:38.560-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Optionally NuclearRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-86941285313215678782017-04-07T10:35:11.869-04:002017-04-07T10:35:11.869-04:00I'm pretty sure the 60-vote rule was not broug...I'm pretty sure the 60-vote rule was not brought down from a mountaintop on stone tablets. "Our forefathers could not have forseen it being used for partisan politics."rickn8orhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911803300343351338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-48044288640409940152017-04-07T07:52:30.121-04:002017-04-07T07:52:30.121-04:00Anon, 8:44 AM: "Threatening?" "Thre... Anon, 8:44 AM: "Threatening?" "Threatening?" They already did it, in 2013, for Cabinet appointees and judges for lower courts! Either read the links or refrain from commenting, and maybe try to read the occasional newspaper or newssite. If you donlt know what's going on, you don't know where the real threats are. Listen to NPR; think of it as oppo research. Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-63514312753273726632017-04-06T08:44:46.861-04:002017-04-06T08:44:46.861-04:00The Democrats have to learn that threatening some ...The Democrats have to learn that threatening some course of action to get their way is pretty much just as bad as using such an action, and provokes a strong response in retaliation, often of the same nature.<br /><br />If some flashes a gun and threatens to shoot you if you don't give them your wallet, you draw your gun and shoot them. You don't wait for them to fire first.<br /><br />If the Democrats threaten to use the "nuclear option" against the Republicans, the Republicans should consider it a valid option in all things and use it accordingly.<br /><br />Threatening to use some hostile action signals an intent to use it, and an in-kind response is, therefore, appropriate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-83580130294758421852017-04-06T08:37:35.039-04:002017-04-06T08:37:35.039-04:00Sadly, why should he NOT lie? What's the down...Sadly, why should he NOT lie? What's the down-side for him when he does so? It's a ripe dead certainty that he'll never be called on it by the Dem-wing media. If he's ever called on it by any one else it will never see the light of day.<br /><br />The vast, nay, overwhelming majority of people who primarily get their "news" from the lame-stream sources of TV (NBC/CBS/ABC/PBS/CNN) or print will never, ever use a search engine, and probably couldn't even if it occurred to them.<br /><br />This is why our current crop of professional liars (politicians and most "reporters") can (and do) lie with utter impunity. Because they routinely get away with it. This is also why they are so desperate to censor the Web.<br />Blackwing1noreply@blogger.com