MSNBC: Republicans Cave! Will allow debate to go forward for financial reform!

[flpoljunkie]

[flpoljunkie]

1. TPM: Shelby Says Talks Can Go No Further

Shelby: Talks Can Go No Further

MOMENTS AGO

In a statement just released, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) says that his negotiations with Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) have hit an impasse and "will not produce additional results." He said Dodd assured him that steps will be taken to ensure the end of bailouts -- but he deferred the decision of whether to bring the bill to the floor to leadership.

"While these changes are significant and meaningful, they are not sufficient to garner my support for moving this bill to the Senate floor. Now that my negotiations with Chairman Dodd have reached an impasse, I thank my Republican colleagues for their support and defer to their individual judgments on whether the Senate begins a floor debate on this bill."

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/live/financial-reform-wire/?ref=fpblg

[flpoljunkie]

2. TPM: McConnell Confirms. Legislation Will Hit the Floor

(Gotta get home for the Kentucky Derby on Saturday! An allnighter not too appealing, as well!)

1 MINUTE AGO

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell just released a statement confirming that Republicans will allow financial reform legislation onto the floor:
"Now that those bipartisan negotiations have ended, it is my hope that the majority's avowed interest in improving this legislation on the Senate floor is genuine and the partisan gamesmanship is over."


http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/live/financial-reform-wire/?ref=fpblg#332753

[Beetwasher]

3. Repubs Got Raked Over The Coals!

Feels good, don't it Dems?

Keep it up!

[Clio the Leo]

4. refusing to filibuster overnight and therefore ruining my fun!

They will NOT be getting my vote this fall! (or any other time for that matter lol)

[DrToast]

5. I still don't understand the Republican logic of this whole charade

What's the point of rallying your caucus to vote 'no' if you know they're going to vote 'yes' eventually.

[Beetwasher]

6. It's Pavlovian

Look to science for answers.

[Cha]

7. lololol..

So true.

[backscatter712]

16. Ding ding ding! n/t

[rasputin1952]

8. There is no logic to it...

The only reason they decided to get it on the floor, is because they finally realized how ridiculous they looked.

To be sure, they will fight everything, but for them to "filibuster" made them look like jerks, and even R's realize when there was no win for them in this.

[DrToast]

11. But they never had the votes to sustain the filibuster

From all we've read there were enough Republicans telling the leadership that eventually they would vote for it.

So what the hell was the point of all this?

[rasputin1952]

14. It was a stupid ploy to benefit teabaggers and R's in their

home states...it was stupid.

[FrenchieCat]

9. They probably thought the media was gonna help them twist the Dem's legislation on this,

like the media helped them do that on healthcare.

Seems like the media was unable to do this and still
appear credible as it may have looked too obvious,
that they, the corporate media, was supporting the Corporate world.

As the GOP saw the polling numbers and realized the media could do little to help them,
they caved. Guess, without the media, the Pubs aren't so powerful after-all.

[JoePhilly]

13. Agree

[Meshuga]

15. "Guess, without the media, the Pubs aren't so powerful after-all."

Hit the nail on the head there! Republicans cannot do much without their allies on the media to distort and spin things in their favor.

[Writer]

20. On that same logic...

then what does it say if "the media" haven't helped the Republicans?

[butterfly77]

18. Exactly!

Plus they are getting their asses kicked on immigration,with more to come..

[zulchzulu]

10. Wow! They will allow for "debate"...

As if...

:crazy:

[flpoljunkie]

17. Yep. No objection to unanimous consent to move forward to debate.

[Phx_Dem]

12. So, all the negative headlines were for naught. God they're idiots.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[craigmatic]

19. I never thought I'd see the day when dems make them cave. I'm so used to it being the other way

around.

[opihimoimoi]

21. The GOP CAVED IN...They caved in because they were looking like the FOOLs They ARE...dumb shits

[Writer]

22. So now all the folks at Free Republic will be howling...

much like we've howled in here on many an occasion about Dems...

about how Congressional Republicans are spineless, no-good, weak-willed Pubbies.

[mariawr]

24. Yes they are howling....

<To: OldDeckHand

The GOP is full of progressives in the same mold as any democrat.

McConnel could have made them read the health care bill on the senate floor but didn’t. So no one knew what was in the bill.

They are all in league to finish us off and take away all of our freedoms.

And to think all that needs to happen is the BC issue be resolved.

45 posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4:54:37 PM by stockpirate ("......When the government fears the people you have liberty." Thomas Jefferson) >



.......But you just cant quantify teh stoopid.

[Jack Rabbit]

23. I guess they finaaly listened to the people