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No Right Is Absolute? Think Again.

Once again, the ‘no right is absolute’ argument is being dragged out, this time as an excuse for flagrantly violating not just the Constitution, but the federal statutes that prohibit the government from collecting information about gun purchases necessary to create a firearms registry.

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The US Senate Dems are STILL for the Filibuster if it Moves Their Agenda Forward or Prevents Someone from Stopping it

I’ve known Erick Erickson for year after meeting him at a “State level bloggers conference” way back when the TEA Party movement was just starting to spin up. He’s gone from his Georgia Peach site to helping to found Red State, a successful lawyer, advisor to a number of conservative campaigns, and is a successful …

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Mitch McConnell So Doesn’t Get It … 2020 Was NOT A One-Off

Mitch McConnell is not happy that many Democrats want to do away with the Senate’s filibuster: McConnell recently penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he listed all his reasons for not ending the filibuster including this: And then there’s the small problem that majorities are never permanent. The last time a …

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Union Leader Now Carrying Water for Jeanne Shaheen on Coronavirus

This: The linked “article”, if you want to be kind and call it that, resembles John DiStaso’s “coverage” – essentially cutting and pasting Jeanne Shaheen’s press release and signing your name to it: The grants come on top of $1.25 billion New Hampshire will receive under the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act, the …

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Jeanne Shaheen Flat-Out Misleads New Hampshire About Why She Filibustered Coronavirus-Relief & What the Filibuster Achieved

Jeanne Shaheen has been working relentlessly today to rewrite history about why she filibustered the Phase III Conornavirus relief bill and what that filibuster actually achieved. For example: These happen to be the talking points that CryingChuck Schumer directed his Democrats to repeat (source 8:29 AM tweet from @JakeSherman): So let’s take these one by …

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From Diversity-Mandates to Early-Voting … All the Completely Extraneous Things Jeanne Shaheen is Filibustering to Add to Coronavirus Relief

So last night I posted about how Jeanne Shaheen is filibustering the very Coronavirus-relief bill she helped negotiate and write … because Nancy Pelosi decided to use the present and rapidly-growing economic crisis to pass a wish-list of Democrat legislation. When you see what the Democrats want added to the Coronavirus bill, your draw will …

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Senator Jeannie Has One-Upped John Kerry – “I Actually Wrote the Coronavirus-Relief Bill, Before I Voted to Filibuster It.”

So the Democrats in the United States Senate have voted en masse to filibuster the Phase 3 Coronavirus-relief bill, which was to provide economic stimulus and aid to businesses. In a nutshell, what happened is that Senate “negotiators” from both Parties spent the last two days negotiating a bill and had essentially come to an …

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