Bush can't win this one or win anything in congress.
Harry Reid controls congress. You need 60 votes to get anything done in congress.
Harry Reid will block any illegal immigration strict measures too.
Harry Reid controls washington not bush. How can Bush win this one. You need 60 votes in the senate.
Can we stop the lie that the republicans control congress. That couldn't be farther from the truth. You need 60 votes to get anything done in the senate which gives all the power to reid.
There is no way on God's green earth the demonrats will continue to fillibuster the Patriot act til anywhere near the election. It's suicide.
Well, honestly, Frist and the Republicans have only ever talked about changing the fillibuster rules regarding judicial nominees, not legislation. Thus, what is Frist to do? Any party can be obstructionist. It isn't difficult. The question is, what is the payoff for the dems in obstructing any and everything? The dems think that they still have a media monopoly and that their obstructionism will be covered so as to score points. Sorry, not happening. The more they obstruct, the more ammo they give the Republicans and the worse it looks for them. Fillibustering the Patriot Act went too far, way too far and they now, have fully self-destructed.
Agreed...republicans are spineless and now I can't tell the difference between these senators. They are working on anti-torture measures which will allow the ACLU to try our soldiers and give al queda civil rights. They cannot pass meaningful border legislation...did anyone else hear Obama speak on this? That man is friggin' crazy and out for minorities, not Americans! He is a socialist. The patriot act has protected us since 911....why would you change it? Why in God's name would you not vote to make permanent? These people are useless, red-tape, selfish, out of touch, ego maniacs.
I would be glad to if they would change the Senate rules that required a real filabuster rather than "okay, they're gonna filabuster, let's move on".
Let the rats stand there for days reading the phone book, holding up all other business. It'd be like when the republicans "shut down the goobermint", if you'll recall the public would go nuts and if the LSM could be forced into showing clips from it it'd happen again.
Let Frist get in the front of the cameras and rant that the rats are holding up the business of the people, etc. with their reading of the phone book.
The non-filabuster filabuster is the biggest pile of lazy assed crap that's ever happened in DC and that's saying a lot.
That's because there's hardly a dime's worth of different between the two parties; most of both will sell us out to get invited to the right cocktail parties. "What, a real filabuster? How quaint, you must be kidding?"
Don't believe me? Write your republican senator and ask him/her why it is the way it is and see if you get a reply that's even close to the question.
The Republicans DO control congress. They just give up when there's a THREAT of a filibuster.