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To: OXENinFLA
Has the Slimes recently opined about the filibuster?
4 posted on 04/27/2005 5:19:33 PM PDT by CaptainK
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To: CaptainK

Yeah looks like it.


http://www.progressforamerica.com/1101-361.1101-031005A.html

Filibusters, Then and Now

03/10/2005

Senator John Cornyn
New York Times

"The Senate on the Brink" (editorial, March 6) supports the "historic role of the filibuster," which is a curious position for a newspaper that 10 years ago said filibusters were "the tool of the sore loser" and should be eliminated ("Time to Retire the Filibuster," editorial, Jan. 1, 1995).

Federal judicial appointments have certainly been controversial, but surely all Americans can agree that the rules for confirming judges should be the same regardless of which party has a majority.

Now you praise the filibuster as a "time-honored Senate procedure." In 1995, when Bill Clinton was president, you called it "an archaic rule that frustrates democracy and serves no useful purpose."

You disparage the Republicans' view that 51 votes should be enough for judicial confirmation. Yet the 51-vote rule is a consistent Senate tradition. By calling for an end to filibusters, the Senate is simply contemplating restoring its traditions by traditional methods you disparage as "nuclear," even though they were once endorsed by such leading Democrats as Senators Edward M. Kennedy, Charles E. Schumer and Robert C. Byrd.


7 posted on 04/27/2005 5:21:26 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
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