Senate Republicans to save the House GOP from itself?

By now, everyone reading this has seen the true RINO colors of the House GOP... they seem to lack a political testicle between them.

The so-called Ryan-Murray Bill is a disaster on dozens of levels, and House GOP cowardice is just one of them.

So... will the Senate GOP rise up and save the House... and the country... from the disaster that is this idiotic bill that continues to harm the finances of the nation?  Will the senate finally show the courage needed to stand up to that clueless moron in the White House?

Will Reid and his merry little band just change the rules like they did on judicial and other confirmations?  Well Sessions actually make this happen?

Stay tuned.

Jeff Sessions: Senate GOP to Filibuster Paul Ryan's Budget Deal

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by Matthew Boyle 12 Dec 2013 132 post a comment

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking GOP member of the Senate Budget Committee, said Thursday that Senate Republicans plan to filibuster the budget deal that House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA).

The deal passed the House 332-94, with 62 Republicans and 32 Democrats voting against it. The bill is expected to come up for votes in the Senate early next week, either Monday or Tuesday.

The type of filibuster Sessions spoke of is not the traditional “talking filibuster” like the one Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) launched earlier this year to protest Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama’s drone policies. It is a procedural filibuster, The Hill reports, that would require Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to at least twice obtain 60 votes to pass the bill.

“They’ll need 60 votes on cloture and 60 votes on the budget point of order,” Sessions said, according to The Hill.

Since there are only 55 Democrats in the U.S. Senate, Reid will twice need at least five Republicans to break from their party and support the budget deal. Reid may need more Republicans if liberals like Sens. Tom Harkin (D-IA) or Bernie Sanders (I-VT) oppose the deal because it does not extend unemployment benefits. Considering 32 Democrats voted against the deal in the House, it seems plausible Reid may lose at least one, maybe two Democrats in the Senate.

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