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To: AndrewC
I would compare this to a robber who comes into your house and attempts to take everything you own. When you holler and threaten him with a weapon, he deals with you and gets you to agree to an idiotic "compromise": you can keep some of your things, but he reserves the "right" to take some of them from you if he really reall really wants them. Then the media and everyone in the outside world applauds and calls the robber a "moderate."

THEY NEVER HAD THE RIGHT TO FILIBUSTER IN THE FIRST PLACE! They've been denying all the other Senators their right to vote. They are the extremists.

1,399 posted on 05/23/2005 6:28:45 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
THEY NEVER HAD THE RIGHT TO FILIBUSTER IN THE FIRST PLACE! They've been denying all the other Senators their right to vote. They are the extremists.

And that is exactly what I think this "Moderate" agreement says. We'll stop using the filibuster and go back to the previous 214 year tradition and you won't change the Rules to formalize the tradition.

The result is the same as if we had formalized the Rules change to make the tradition crystal-clear. We still will not see filibusters of judicial nominees going forward except maybe a very rare case. If the moderate Democrats go right back to stonewalling judicial nominees using filbusters, these seven Democrats will be the ones who breached the agreement first.

This is not a big deal. I have predicted for months that the Democrats would allow votes if they thought they would lose the "nuke" vote. They were hoping to fight another day. Now the Moderate Dems have said that they will only filibuster in "extraordinary" circumstances. Everyone knows that every judge can't be extraordinary. They thought they would lose and they backed down. The RINOS may have given them a couple of small sweeteners (we'll see) but the continuous filibustering is now over...

1,467 posted on 05/23/2005 6:41:15 PM PDT by RobFromGa (Enact Constitutional Option Now!)
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