Posted on 01/31/2005 3:41:25 PM PST by RWR8189
Frist is in a much better position with 55 members in his caucus than he was with 51, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt as this session gets under way.
The senate is truly a tyranny of the minority.
With all due respect to the Honorable Senator Frist: Fight them or run away with your tail tucked between your legs like the other gutless Republicans.
Make it so.
If they do not, then we are so over.
Talk is cheap. Yhe dems know he won't use it. This is like parents who constantly threaten their children and still have the brattiest kids in the neighborhood because the kids have yet to see one threat implemented.
They have to ACT like a majority, but it may require a trip to the add-a-nut-to-me factory.
Word up is the 'rats have never actually filibustered, only threatened to do so.
Let's make them start talkin' nonstop.
They will only lose more ground with thinking Americans.
While procedural games were played to keep Paez' nomination in limbo for over 2 years, it's questionable if this could properly be called a filibuster.
I cannot tell if any cloture votes on his nomination were ever taken and lost by the Democrats until the year 2000. If so, then it should be called a filibuster.
There was the one 2000 cloture vote taken and the possible filibusterers lost it, so a filibuster was never begun because it never got off the ground.
All of the Republican senators would have known that the cluture would be upheld, so Frist's vote against cloture could have been taken for philosophical rather that filibusteral (:>) reasons.
I have yet to see a real fillibuster on this. I guess our republican senators are afraid of having to stay awake for 24-48 hours straight.
I'm sure soldiers are having to do so somewhere right now
under a whole lot worse circumstances.
Congressman BillyBob prefer to call it "the constitutional option" , ..not "nuclear option", it does make better sense... plus "Constitutional Option" really pisses the 'RATS/Liberal Constitutional Lawyers off and they can't *itch much.
Is there any chance that the 'Rats will back down on these filibusters? After all, look what it got Tom Daschle.
Sedition is still a crime in the US code.
<< Geez, [It's] like he's talking to a bunch of kids. >>
It's worse than that.
He is [But a big kid, himself -- and is] talking to a bunch of kids.
We need term limits and the consequential restoration of our beloved FRaternal Reuplic.
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