7/11 Remember all the screaming back in 2005 or so about "up or down votes"
and "the nuclear option?" What happened to all that talk now that
the Rs are effectively filibustering everything in the Senate
that can't get 60 votes?
\_ That was about political tests for judicial appointments. I don't
think anyone wants to pull that lever for significant legislation.
\_ Bullshit. The whining was because the democratic minority
DIDN'T abuse the fillibuster for ever damn vote ever. They
used it for extreme cases as it should be used. If the minority
had filibustered every damn vote that had between 50 and 60
ayes the rebpublican majority would have flipped out. But they
didn't do that. The republican minority however, after whining
like babies when a fillibuster happened is now fillibustering
more than any other Senate. It's called hipocracy, you can't
defend it.
\_ That non-existent lever, you mean. But this is a bullshit
response. The reason is that, especially in the Senate, things
are designed to move achingly slowly unless there's a broad
consensus. The R's have whined and moaned about it, sometimes
\_ Which explains the massive effort to get amnesty passed in
the middle of the night. Oh wait, no it doesn't.
\_ Uh, what?
to effective ends (read Contract on^Wfor America), for decades.
The D's can't bring themselves to complain about it in a way
that will bring any results. They have, imo, misplaced faith
in "finding compromise" and "bipartisanship". |
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