To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Does anyone know why Frist and Lott before him never required the dissenters to conduct any actual filibusters?
56 posted on
05/25/2005 9:40:30 AM PDT by
Theodore R.
(Cowardice is forever!)
To: Theodore R.
Does anyone know why Frist and Lott before him never required the dissenters to conduct any actual filibusters?The threat of Filibusters and the nuke option changes the minds, of the Senate leaders.
78 posted on
05/25/2005 9:46:27 AM PDT by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: Theodore R.
The real filibusters require only one ranter for the 'rats, but all the Republicans have to be there to maintain a quorum.
88 posted on
05/25/2005 9:49:00 AM PDT by
expatpat
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