Open borders, one and all

[Xiahou]

Then I had to argue with you about the meaning of executive calendar, which you also misinterpreted. Once past that, now I'm having to explain that cloture has nothing to do with the 2/3 requirement for approving treaties. It's getting rather old.

I thought this was obvious, but I'll lay it out for you. If a proposed treaty wouldn't have enough votes to end debate under rule XXII, it certainly wouldn't have enough votes to pass under the Constitution. What's the effective difference? Nominations could be passed with a simple majority and treaties would still require a super-majority to be passed which is greater than the cloture threshold.

I've already admitted that the word "judicial" the preceded "nominations" was inaccurate- yet you feel the need to keep ramming it home... Let's see if I can come up with a statement that would make Aenlic happy- mind you I didn't have my lawyer go over it...

The GOP Senate almost killed the filibuster in 2005. That would have been quite ironic....

On judicial nominations only and treaties. And the effect on treaties would be minimal since they already require a 67 vote majority to pass which is well above the 60 votes needed for cloture.

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