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washingtonmonthly.com - 2/2/2009
The prospect of a filibuster
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THE PROSPECT OF A FILIBUSTER.... Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) recently said his Republican caucus would not filibuster an economic stimulus package. McConnell, alas, appears to have it backwards. U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, said he is prepared to...
Mitch McConnell Needs Some Balls
dontgomovement.com - 1/29/2009
Mitch McConnell Needs Some Balls
— dontgomovement.com — Grow a Pair…and it appears we’re going to have to give him some help. Operation Send a... Pair The DontGo Movement is teaming up with RedState to launch the new “Send a Pair” campaign. The campaign is in place to help Mitch McConnell obtain some much ... (more) Mitch McConnell Needs Some Balls

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Mitch McConnell Needs Our Help
redstate.com - 1/29/2009
Mitch McConnell Needs Our Help
— redstate.com — Last night the House GOP stood together, moderates and conservatives, and opposed Barack Obama's socialist stimulus scheme.... Today, Mitch McConnell is going to address the Republican National Committee's winter meeting. According to Roll Call, in his ... (more) Mitch McConnell Needs Our Help

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Mitch McConnell: To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion."
politifact.com - 2/4/2009
Mitch McConnell: To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started ...
— politifact.com — The Truth-o-Meter says: True | Stimulus plan comes to more than a million bucks a day since... Jesus Christ was born In a CBS Face the Nation interview on Feb. 1, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , R-Ky, sought to put the proposed economic ... (more) Mitch McConnell: To give the proposed economic stimulus ...

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Obama White House Losing Patience On Stimulus
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Sen Richard Shelby, meanwhile, said he was prepared to use the parliamentary procedure to hold up the stimulus bill. Sen. Chuck Grassley, Minority Whip Jon Kyl, and Sen. James Inhofe have ...

Obama White House Losing Patience On Stimulus
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Sen Richard Shelby, meanwhile, said he was prepared to use the parliamentary procedure to hold up the stimulus bill. Sen. Chuck Grassley, Minority Whip Jon Kyl, and Sen. James Inhofe have ...

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Shelby Hopes GOP Is Ready to Filibuster Stimulus — News
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McConnell: In the Senate it routinely takes sixty votes to do almost everything — Crooks and Liars
Download | Play    Download | Play You Tube On Face the Nation Mitch McConnell says the GOP is going to require sixty votes for the stimulus bill to pass, but doesn't want to call it a filibuster. Since the Democrats cave in and never actually make them filibuster anything, his ...
The stimulus and the filibuster — Daily Kos
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What, Me Filibuster? McConnell Plays it Cool, Suggesting Strong Position on Stimulus — TPM Election Central
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) just finished briefing reporters about his party's strategy on the stimulus bill, and he declined to address the question on everyone's lips: Will the GOP mount a filibuster of the economic recovery package? Instead, McConnell sent one strong ...
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Last year, the Roadblock Republicans of the 110th Congress set the all-time filibuster record . Forcing 104 cloture votes by October 2008, the Senate's GOP minority easily eclipsed the old mark of 61 filibusters. And now, fresh on the heels of "elated" and "celebrating" House Republicans' ...
Senate Republicans Gearing Up To Filibuster Recovery Package Despite Promises To The Contrary — Think Progress
Last night on NPR’s All Things Considered, host Robert Siegel asked Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) about the prospects of a Republican filibuster of the Senate’s version of the economic recovery package. Grassley responded that Republicans would indeed filibuster the package , requiring ...