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To: deport

Filibusters should be totally eliminated. Whoever came up with this moronic concept that somehow the minority should be able to tie the majority in knots whenever they so please should be vilified. The senate is truly a tyranny of the minority.


20 posted on 01/31/2005 4:56:08 PM PST by appeal2
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To: appeal2

The senate is truly a tyranny of the minority.



It can be as it's the deliberative body and not much ever gets accomplished without unamious consent of the members. Thus one or a few can hold things up in many different ways...


22 posted on 01/31/2005 5:01:05 PM PST by deport (It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.)
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