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In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says that the Senate should consider “a change in rule” regarding the filibuster if it continues to impede action on important issues.» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
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‘Shame On Ss:’ Sen. Durbin Says Of The Filibuster Impeding Action On Issues | Meet The Press
The filibuster needs to go! There needs to be no debate!
I don’t get any of this. McConnell has treated us like sewage all of these years, using every single advantage, perceived and real, to prevent Democrats from getting anything done. How is it that we’re still letting him get away with this crap?? Make him step aside and let’s *move*!
What’s a filibuster exactly?
Do a McConnell and do whatever you chose as you so please. Filibuster or bust.
Establish the value of history. How to warn against and prevent future Trump and Trump Cult? How to deal with future Trump and Trump Cult? Document what happen?
Time for ACTION get rid of it
come on, durbin, obama tried to be bipartisan and they slapped him down every time. how long are we dems going to believe in the fallacy of bipartisanship? let’s move on.
All the sudden, the filibuster is bad.
Abolish the filibuster. We’re sick of nothing getting done to help the people! We are your employers.
The Republican party is anti-government, anti-democracy and worse: anti-American
They only want to cut their own taxes and waste money on the military and destabilize the world to justify that spending.
I’ve gotten tired of letting psychopaths run the world.
Just me?
Tell them they can have the filibuster back when they have a two-thirds majority, then pass a law banning it.
Abolish the Filibuster! It represents White Supremacy and has NOTHING to do with our Constitution!
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Stand up and stand strong democracts!!!!! Stay True and with God’s help get the job done!!! Do not chicken out to Mitch McConnell and the other republican controllers, remember who leads in the Senate and the House!!!!! Put them properly in their places, and do your best for the American People!!!! Always show Intestinal Fortitude!!!!
Get the job done!!!!
Old Mitch had no problem with the filibuster not being applied to judicial nominees as he was ramming unqualified stooges through to pack the courts.
If they keep it, it’s time to make the Senators stand there and say the words. No more stipulated filibusters.
Sen Turbin should retire. He has done nothing for the state of Illandannoyed
!WARNING YOU ARE BEING LIED TO. NOTHING NBC NEWS PUTS OUT THERE HAS ANY FACTUAL BASIS.
DEMS LEADERS MUST END the FILIBUSTER IMMEDIATELY to SAVE AMERICAN ECONOMY & MILLIONS OF AMERICAN LIVES!! PERIOD !!
there’s NO negotiating with “rePUGNANTS”!!!
republicans are a party of ‘not enough Americans suffering’. for them the 400,000 dead from the pandemic they said was fake does not satisfy their quota. the dems need to stop procrastinating and get on with bringing the filibuster to an end and get Americans the help needed. to all of you on the Hill, your fridges are full and you’re sitting on your hands arguing about whether to help the very people who afford you that luxury while they suffer? for the sake of all that is good, “Send Help NOW”
I think progressives will lose their standing and their attempt to be heard if they cannot act with patience. They cannot act to pushy or obnoxious or no one will listen to their objectives.
Sick just ignore the republicans they ignored democrats for 8 year. No bipartisanship 7 million more people voted on the Biden platform and it needs to get done just get it done.
Drop the impeachment and take the inciting seditious riot charges to federal court where a felony conviction would serve the stated goal of denying access to public office.
Dems, don’t kid yourself, McConnell will chew you up and spit you out, the grim reaper that he is. McConnell is not in the Senate to serve the American people, he is there to protect and enhance the power of his role and his party, and the only group he serves is his donors namely the big businesses. You will be so sorry if you agree to the filibuster.
I think you should change the rule so that when you’re all in the congressional minority party in two years, it will be lovely. And because we all know the economy will tank after the initial after-Covid boost, Democrats will not win the next presidency. Then we can really get something done with this nation and economy.
Abolish the filibuster…. this is the only way that you’re going to get something done ✅
Jesus loves you Please repent because He is coming soon,
Like so more people can see this
Can cooler heads prevail when so many of us have lost our freaking minds though? Or is it only a spectacle that we’ve lost our minds. I don’t know… how about they actually go after big tech and these companies that profit off of making us go crazy for no other reason than to please advertisers… thinking out loud here. Probably going to continue seeing people inserting me into whatever narrative they’re addicted to this week.
Stop ✋ the Filibuster. it’s just wrong 😑. Love 💕 from Australia 🇦🇺
Did Harry Reid get paid for helping provide Visas to Chinese?
Question: Can we have UNITY while republican DICTATORS are tolerated.
I don’t care how Trump is put in prison for forming an Army to overthrow our democracy. If ARMED insurrection is LEGAL and is NOT TREASION then
FIX the LAW.
AFTER IMPEACHMENT:
Can their be peace between the armed enforcers of LIES made of mere words and the armed defenders of LIVES made of pure truth?
UNITY: Beliefs can only exist in the absence of knowing Truth.
Humans are divided by WORDS, not by Truth.
Teaching babies Truth is the ONLY cure for the escalating Nuclear war of Mere Words between the armed enforcers of our lies and the armed defenders of our Lives.
Hmmmmm, did Moscow Mitch worry about the other side when he hijacked the Senate?? Screw him! He blew up all precedent anything it was advantageous to his weaselly agenda! He’s a blatantly outright LIAR! Any agreement with him is worthless! Just do your job, better life for ALL Americans, Make the rich pay their share and mandate TERM LIMITS!, Mitch will be voted out .
Justice delayed is justice denied. House delivering impeachment to Senate for trial Monday, but will spineless, corrupt Republicans do the right thing and convict the Traitor-‘n-Thief, Toxic Trump? Don’t bet the farm.
How is that the Russian opposition leader has 1,000 times more courage and integrity than Congressional Republicans kowtowing to fascist, seditious, corrupt Toxic Trump have shown for four years?
Education to the Republican cult means programming lies, fears, and hate into people, while discouraging critical reasoning, independent thought, and objectivity.
GOP cult is *_NOT_* the party of law and order, *_NOT_* the party of the Constitution and patriots, *_NOT_* the party of “values,” *_NOT_* the party of “Christianity,”_* *_NOT_* the party of fiscal responsibility, *_NOT_* the party of clean government, *_NOT_* the party of freedom. It’s the party of terrorism, lawlessness, corruption, fascism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, bigotry, misogyny, Big Lies, crackpot conspiracy theories, unmitigated greed, gross hypocrisy, socialized taxpayer payouts for plutocrats, sedition, traitors, and tyranny.
Elmer Fudd’s always trying to convince me he just wants unity.
What he really means is that he wants to eat me.
End it already.
Toss them out without a penny and see how long they survive out here in the real world!
We can vote them out! We can bury them in polite but clear demands. No more games! Do for us what we hire you for and quit spending our lives for your greed! Write, email, fax, and call all your representatives again and again and again! No one is above the Law! The 22 yr old white woman who stole Pelosi’s laptop was given home arrest! Her Mommy is watching her! Arrest and convict all officials involved in the attempt to overthrow our democracy. If trump had led his mob we would now be living under marshall law with donny as King! There would have been no resistance. Next time they may well get it right!
Am I understanding this correctly? They want to remove the filibuster on just this stimulus relief bill and similar bills, or they want to remove the filibuster period?
American democracy has always leaned to the right. The less attractive features of the crony capitalism which has always been the spectre at the feast has fostered an anti welfare state mentality. Because, if it needs saying, it would eat into the bottom line, in one word greed. The result? a good few decades amounting to tens of millions of abandoned disenfranchised low skilled workers, who were simply ‘let go’ to fear for their future. Not a huge political item until DJT the showman lifted a stone and with rhetoric and red hats garnered millions of votes. Those for whom the America system has provided riches beyond imagination might well have been creating the circumstances for its demise. The culprits? greed and fear. If you are an American it’s there in plain view all around.
The only Actions that should be taking are to LOCK UP THE CRIMINALS RUNNING YOUR GREAT COUNTRY, AMERICAN
This perspective from Sen. Durbin makes me want to believe the Fabled Scorpion might yet be reformed and redeemed, but what really seduces me to hope is that the Democrats (driven by the progressives among them) will actually use the power they have to start fixing some of what is so broken. Go ahead and try to trust the Scorpion one more time, if you must, for as long as it works, but then move forward and end the filibuster, reform the courts, and above all pursue justice through honest and thorough investigation, prosecution, disbarring the unethical, and censure and expulsion of the criminals within the congress where appropriate. The Democrats should bear the risks of these choices stoically for they will have to pay the same cost for failure regardless of the reason, and only organizing society’s resources to support a sustainable common good can lead us to a worthy goal. No amount of good done by the Biden Administration can replace the need for Justice, because to ignore these criminals and their crimes is to enable and become them. McConnell just showed the Democrats what can be done with just a slim majority and the temerity to use it, and we’ve also seen how well Obama’s strategy of ‘just moving forward’ and ‘reaching across the isle’ did, so to our leaders, please take counsel from William Lloyd Garrison’s words: “With reasonable men I will reason, with humane men I will plead, but with tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste argument…”, and lead us through these dark times with the compassion, courage, character, and wisdom that we need the Biden Administration to foster and demonstrate. …so far, so very good, but we have ‘miles to go before we sleep’.
Thanks for bringing these discussions to us.
Mitch is desperate to hang onto power and if you give him an inch he will turn around and grab a mile.
Can the filibuster now. It’s plain that the republican lying is never going to stop.
A tyrannical government changes the rules of elections and decorum, the democrats are proving they are a tyrannical government. They have censored free speech, changed the election voting rules, ignored the cornerstone of the American justice system and need to be held accountable. Since the illegitimate President has banned protesting in Washington DC, conservatives need to protest At the homes at these democrats.
The American people want gridlock in Washington
When did McConnell follows his own rules? Payback time!!!
Republicans need to self reflect what they’ve done with the American peoples money handling for the last four years. The Republicans need to be more then their usual “No” to everything, even when it’s good for the American people. They know when the American people suffer, the stock market goes up. They always seem to be on the wicked side of history.
Reform this filibuster give them 3 weeks and we can’t even get that. What’s the pout of having a majority of one person can have a veto on bills passed by the house. Undemocratic
We are now in a pandemic. Americans need physical, mental, economical help NOW. The president and the Democrats have to put the American people FIRST! Next year or so they can all play politics; fillabuster or whatever.
Filibustering should be illegal. The business of the state has no business in modern politics! We should never give up until the filibuster is gone! Not, “consider!” Not negotiate! Do it!
Republicans are already being Obstructionist, the Filibuster would just be the hammer than Republicans would use to nail EVERYTHING to the wall that didn’t follow along with what they wanted. It’s just another way for McTurtle to block progress in the Senate rather than let things sit on his desk.
End it….it’s a tool of tools
Democrats are such fools. The republican party is a criminal organization pure and simple. The only way to deal with them is to kick them squarely in the balls.
Get rid of the filibuster. You already know certain factions can’t be trusted
Remove the filibuster and gerrymandering
McConnell has abused his power long enough. And got way to much enjoyment.
i am with Durbin…take it down immediately as soon as some major legislation comes up and they stall the train…else shame on you. blessings to all
Democrats have control both houses of congress…how is it possible for filibuster to exist
How many times do Dems have to be Charlie Brown and the reps being Lucy for them to get it?
Senator Durbin,
Screw the Filibuster, and don’t trust the Republicans. Let’s get down to business. If the shoe was on the other foot..The Republicans would not even think twice.
This is insane the last thing we need during a pandemic is some one speaking for hours on end. Hasn’t the senate learned how the virus spreads by now.? McConnell the kids are fed up your senate old man-splaining less talk more ACTION! Don’t tell us how you’re gonna unclog the sink, grab the d*mn plunger and do it!
THANKS KENTUCKY FOR YOUR CHOICE! THANK GOD GEORGIA DID WHAT WAS RIGHT FOR US!
McConnell is blackmailing the nation just like Donald J Trump did. We watched McConnell block desperately needed legislation FOR YEARS! Decent constitutional Americans everywhere are sick and tired of it…heck no! We do not need another six months to be held at ransom by this man and his party. I’m an exRepublican turned Independent precisely because of men like Mitch McConnell – they say one thing and do another. They want to keep using taxpayers money to finance their private retirement accounts, and to continue leading a life of luxury with no responsibility! We Americans are sick and tired of watching these crooked politicians! If you can’t do the job without blocking everybody and everything except what you deem needed, then you don’t belong in Congress anymore than Trump belonged in the Whitehouse! Time to resign Mitch McConnell! You block legislation designed to end the Coronavirus pandemic that’s killed so many beloved Americans and to feed and shelter this nation’s hungry children, but meanwhile you and the old white men’s club are living life high style with zero worries!!! All with taxpayers supporting you…even paying your legal bills when you’re sued or taken to court! No more! America is sick and tired of you McConnell!
The Democrat caucus needs to toss Shummer and get a real leader. He has done nothing but roll over for McConnell for years now.
Turtle man used the nuke option to ram through RWNJ judges and SJC appointees. So that turd and the repubs can just STFU.
Time has come to make elected officials accountable.
I miss Russert! Tim Russert had the balls to interrupt those trying to run out the clock! Russert dug through the bs to find the truth.
Our lawmakers waste Enough time doing nothing without the filabuster. Get rid of it once and for all.
For once, somebody who actually wants to work!
Mitch McConnell had no issues with going nuclear on the filibuster against the Democratic party!!!
That to me is conceding power. Don’t you all dare. Keep your power always. It’s yours fair and square and you all mean to do good things for America and Americans. I wouldnt think about negotiating over it. Let the Gop learn how to carry and conduct themselves in a way befitting their positions as elected officials of America and Americans. Let them learn how to work with their colleagues in Washington with nothing more for them to fall back on than the job at hand. And congrats. Use you power well.
I say give “Moscow Mitch” the same reneged deal he and the other GOP(Grumpy Old Pervs) party gave America about not voting a Supreme Court Judge in the last year of Trumpy’s term of Presidency….. In other words LIE LIE LIE to them like they did to America, get down and dirty just like they do……….
when are biden and the left =democrats and their rinos going to begin
wearing their chinese uniforms and kabuki theatre make -up…???????
I get it “Corn-Pop was a bad dude”. Mitch McConnell is Corn-Pop.
No filibuster!
Filibuster is existential to Republicans right now. Voting rights and DC statehood getting past McConnell right now will be GAME OVER. The current Republican platform will have to be dismantled and reformed into something that attracts a majority of American voters, not just gerrymandered districts and rural states.
Republicans will klll the bill because they won’t co-operate with the democrats ever. Too bad about the people suffering but Republican needs are greater right. Nothing has changed. All the Republican senators want is POWER.
THE FILIBUSTER WILL NOT BE ABOLISHED CAUSING THE PROGRESSIVE WACKOS TO BREAK FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, WHICH WILL RESULT IN LESS VOTES FOR DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES, AND MORE WINS FOR CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS IN 2022..
If the Democrats really want to move forward then the obstacle needs to be removed so get rid of the filibuster. Bi-partisan is a load of Bs for real, it didn’t work for President Obama and it’s not going to work for President Biden.
The filibuster is being used to stop the will of the people. That’s literally the opposite of it’s intended purpose it’s there so a rouge senate and president can’t go against the will of the people. We should end it we need so many reforms in so many area’s it’s a decent start.
Every time Democrats use the Nuclear Option it blows up in their face.
Please! Do it again!
Never learn…
“We should consider…” means we won’t do it. Namby pamby Democrats. And they wonder why they consistently lose mid-term elections. Hopeless.
Here we go again. The Democrats are dreaming if they think the Republicans want to work with them. Seriously!
“If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.” — Jim Cooper U.S. Representative – (D-TN 5th District)
Democrats are so disappointing. You have the power use it. The Republicans used it the pass that massive tax Bill, they also used it to repeal Obamacare. And would have done it had not been for Senator McCain. But now here comes the spineless Democrats with their gutless approach. I’m not surprised one bit, the only time Republicans want to work together is when they’re not in power
when they lose control of the ball they want the rules stay as is perpetuating their power. but if they had the ball in their hands they would crush and pass things as in judicial empowerment, loading the supremecourt in their last days of majority and a soon to be fired president.. It is time we play the game under our rules we won and we should stop being nice to these back stabbers
take that power thats what we voted for and we worked hard to get it for you , do not take this sitting down DEMOCRATS ,
Republicans will never work with the democrats, its not in their DNA to be bipartisan, they will frustrate every effort to help the working class and the poor of this country because that’s not who they work so I implore these spineless corporate democrats to strengthen their spine and confront this once in a life time catastrophe or two years from now they will all be wiped out ,they will loose the house and senate sits if they don’t act now.
Joe Manchin’s support for the filibuster – making for 51 votes against a rule change – prevents its repeal. Note that, when Trump attempted to include border wall funding in appropriations for 2019, then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ruled out repealing the filibuster to get it passed. Democrats should follow the same standard for legislation.
Time for Dems to act like kindergarten: get rid of the filibuster. Republicans needed it so badly, in the future!
Getting sick and tired of the republicans and their attempts to hold onto power no matter what. SO SICK AND TIRED OF IT ALL!
4 It was destroyed, the earth fell; got sick, the world fell; the high peoples of the earth fell ill. 5 And the land was polluted under its inhabitants; because they violated the laws, they distorted the law, they broke the everlasting covenant. 6 For this reason the curse consumed the land, and its inhabitants were laid waste; for this cause the inhabitants of the earth were consumed, and men were diminished.
7 The wine is lost, the vine is diseased, all the merry of heart groaned.
8 The rejoicing of the tambourines has ceased, the noise of those rejoicing has ceased, the joy of the harp has ceased.
9 They will not drink wine with singing; cider will be bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city is broken by vanity; every house has been closed, so that no one can enter.
11 There are cries for lack of wine in the streets; all joy was darkened, joy was banished from the earth.
12 The city was desolate, and the gate was broken down with ruin.
13 For so shall it be in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the peoples, like a shaken olive tree, like gleanings after the harvest.
Isaiah 24: 4-13.
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6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not disturbed, because it is necessary that all this happens; but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be plagues, and famines, and earthquakes in different places. 8 And all this will be the beginning of pain. Matthew 24: 6-8 JESUS.
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26 “Just as it happened in the time of Noah, so it will be when the Son of man comes. 27 They ate, they drank, and they married and gave in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark; then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 “The same thing happened in Lot’s time: they ate and drank, bought and sold, sowed and built. 29 But on the day that Lot left ” “‘(Sodom)”‘ ”, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 “So it will be on the day the Son of man is revealed. Luke 17: 26-30 JESUS
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9 And when you hear of wars and seditions (protests against their rulers), do not be alarmed; because it is necessary that these things happen first; but the end will not be immediately. 10 Then he said to them: Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; 11 and there will be great earthquakes, and in different places famines and pestilences; and there will be terror and great signs from heaven.
Luke 21: 7-11
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12 and because wickedness has multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
13 But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world, for a witness to all nations; And then the end will come. Matthew 24: 12-14
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22 And if those days were not shortened, no one would be saved; but because of the elect, those days will be shortened. Matthew 24:22 JESUS
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8 But God shows his love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ JESUS died for us.
9 For much more, being already justified in his blood, by him we will be saved from wrath.
10 For if, being enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life. Romans 5: 8-10
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16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son (JESUS), so that everyone who believes in him may not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
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18 Come quickly, says the Lord, and let us be aware: if your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; if they are red like crimson, they will be like white wool. Isaiah 1:18
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9 that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart it is believed for righteousness, but with the mouth it is confessed for salvation.
Romans 10: 9-10
–23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
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12 And in no other is there salvation; for there is no other name under heaven, given to men, by which we can be saved. Acts 4: 11-12
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10 so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth;
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2: 10-11
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12 But to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God; John 1:12
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23 Jesus answered and said to him: Whoever loves me will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. John 14:23
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23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; because the Father also seeks such worshipers to adore him.
24 God is Spirit; and those who adore him, in spirit and in truth it is necessary that they adore.
John 4: 23-24
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give you; I don’t give it to you like the world gives it. Not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. John 14:27
JESUS.,.
There is power in THE NAME OF JESUS.
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I thought the thumbnail was Mr. Roper
Step aside Mitch..