Filibusters

Crunchy Frog: More offensive than filibusters is the ability of a single Senator to put holds on nominations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Plus, all the talk of Republican filibusters is a stinky red herring. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Back in the Dark Ages, the R Senators threatened to use the ‘Atomic option’ or something like that to prevent filibusters from the Ds. I think they threatened to change the rules. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The origin seems to be that a person who filibusters is plundering the time and focus of a deliberative body, like a legislature. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Brown promised throughout his campaign that he will be the "41st vote" against healthcare, which means that Senate Republicans can now sustain filibusters against any and all attempts to achieve final passage of a House-Senate compromise version. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More offensive than filibusters is the ability of a single Senator to put holds on nominations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Republicans under Bush actually got a bunch of Democrats to vote for those cuts most times; and many of the rest of the Democrats would have refused to sustain filibusters to block Republican tax cuts under Bush. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The avoidance of “real” filibusters is a bipartisan problem. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Four filibusters from the party of hell no! •The Climate Change Bill — While the Republican leadership claimed they were objecting to limiting the debate, their claim is dubious since they supposedly wanted the bill to be debated for weeks, knowing that the Democratic leadership needed floor time for other business as well. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If stopping filibusters is the “nuclear option” I cannot imagine what one should call packing the court (dictatorship?). ❋ Unknown (2005)

If he compromised more, and nominated more moderate candidates, you wouldn't see filibusters from the Democrats. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Republicans had hailed Mr. Brown’s election as a turning point that would allow them to sustain filibusters even against a united Democratic majority. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Harry Reid could require more traditional filibusters, which is what your proposal essentially calls for, but he needs to get so much done in such a short period of time that he simply doesn't have the hours to let the minority speak for weeks so he can confirm a judge. ❋ Ezra Klein (2010)

Mexico; and only if the Federal Government refused to support the filibusters was the West to secede. ❋ Cecil Chesterton (1898)

A party of American adventurers, then called filibusters, had gone into Texas, in the endeavor to wrest that immense and beautiful territory, larger than the whole Empire of France, from feeble, distracted, miserable Mexico, to which it belonged. ❋ Unknown (1841)

The fact is that the fascist republicons have set a new all time record for filibusters, which is the reason progress is so slow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In [the Senate] [the Minority] party use of the filibuster can stop everything and controversial because of there [opposition] to it. ❋ Dictionary Server (2004)

Hey man, Do you want to go to the [bars] tonight? I would, but I'm being filibustered by this reading [assignment] I have due [tomorrow]. ❋ Gator8611 (2009)

aka: [cockblock] that bastard [tariq] filibustered me for [the last time]. ❋ Dj Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prints (2004)

man, if this bill [passes], we'll look bad" "[dont worry] [bud], filibuster that shit ❋ Pomeroy92 (2010)

If anybody filibuster [rejects] a lot of people, they will have a lot of friend [requests] in their home [page]. ❋ Fermatx (2009)

Person 1: It's like [Donald Trump] is being [filibuster] [on purpose]! Person 2: Yeah... ❋ PandaGirl Xox (2016)

I [filibustered] [sloan] last night for two hours and she finally [caved] and sucked my dick. ❋ IJeeves (2008)

The extremely popular bill did not pass because the [filibuster] [prevented] it from [passing]. ❋ UrbanDefinitionMaker (2021)

This [ugly broad] wouldnt [shut up] about her [cats]. She was filibusted. ❋ Mr. Bob Dobalina (2009)

Ha, ha. I [filibustered] your mom last night. Ha, ha You better shut your [filibusting] mouth. Dude, did you see [the San Diego] Chargers last night? They totally got filibustered by the New England Patriots Dude, that was so scary, I totally filibustered in my pants. Man, you're such a filibuster. ❋ BigBENmagicman (2011)