Brilliant progressive Bill Maher thinks we never had a filibuster in the Senate until now

bill-maherRemember. Progressives are brilliant. They always tell everyone that. Bill Maher the tard makes it a point to routinely tell people how smart he is. Maybe Maher just needs a refresher course in Politics 101. Or maybe the idiot should go find a video of that Schoolhouse Rock  ”I’m just a bill” from the 1970s. According to Newsbusters, the dumb ass Maher even said and thinks that the Vice President would have to vote to “break a deadlock” if there was a 50 to 49 vote. Seriously! Maybe Maher the tard should read the Senate’s own website that explains how the term filibuster and it’s purpose to block legislative action has been around since the 1850s. But remember, progressives are the smart ones right? Oh, and BTW, it was Al Gore’s daddy, KKK Robert Byrd and the Democrats who participated in a 74-day “filibuster” against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Shhh. Don’t tell dumbass Billy boy.

 


BILL MAHER, HOST: That shows how dysfunctional our government is, and it is partly because of this filibuster. The headline in the paper was jobs bill. 50 to 49. Fails. How could it fail 50 to 49? That’s 50 for. Used to be if you had 50 votes then there was, they brought in the Vice President, who’s a Democrat, to break the deadlock and that was that.

Yes, he really did say the Vice President would have to vote if there was a 50 to 49 “deadlock.”

And this man has his own nationally televised show each week.

I guess it’s beyond his intellectual capacity to realize that 50 to 49 isn’t a deadlock, and that the Vice President is only called in to decide a tie.

After all the nonsense that’s come out of this man’s mouth over the years, why should we expect him to understand something that simple?

But it gets better:

MAHER: There has been a quiet coup in this country where you now need 60 votes. We never voted on this idea that you need six. Why should this? This is not.

JOHN FUND, AMERICAN SPECTATOR: Bill, how many times, the Constitution..

MAHER: Yeah, the Constitution says a simple majority in the Senate. That’s not what we have anymore.

Minutes later as the debate about this issue raged on:

Maher: First of all, you’re talking as if the U.S. Constitution and this particular bill are the same thing.

FUND: You said it would pass. It wouldn’t have.

MAHER: Well, I’m not so sure it wouldn’t. The fact it didn’t pass, Harry Reid changed his vote. It becomes a procedural matter at some point. Yes, it would have passed if they did not have that filibuster hanging over their head which they never used to have hanging over their head.

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October 15, 2011 · Filed Under Bill Maher


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  • klthompson

    Who watches Bill Maher?