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To: Vigilanteman

We would have to overcome a fillibuster though.

That could be impossible.


14 posted on 02/02/2005 2:35:14 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: rwfromkansas

Sooner or later, the pubbies will have to grow the balls to face down a filibuster. A 60 seat majority is a pipe dream which would require a minimum of two election cycles.


34 posted on 02/02/2005 2:47:50 PM PST by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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To: rwfromkansas

But if we make them actually have to do a physical filibuster, to really stand there and speak continuously for days, weeks, months at a time...and if we don't let any of their pork into anything, and won't devote any time to anything else, they can probably be literally physically brutalized by exhaustion into submission.

Meanwhile, the country will see them up there everyday, droning on like morons about nothing, while our privately own accounts are frustrated.

How I wish the Republican leaders would know when to show fang and make a filibuster actually be a FILIBUSTER. If they PHYSICALLY fail because they cannot go on, if they flag, you take the floor and close debate. Let them exhaust themselves and lose anyway when someone swoons in the middle of the night.

On judicial nominees and Social Security, the Republicans have got to be willing to take it to the mattresses.


50 posted on 02/02/2005 2:55:41 PM PST by Vicomte13 (La nuit s'acheve!)
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