[VTenigma]

Nice piece, but you voted for him Alan.

[SJackson]

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We regarded the filibuster as the enemy of democracy and the weapon of choice against civil rights.

I don't agree that the filibuster is an enemy of democracy, though the currently allowed fake ones are. Get up there and talk for a day.

Weapon of choice against civil rights, yes. A Democrat weapon against civil rights. A Democrat weapon against Israel.

[dp0622]

He’s a dictator with no love or regard for the US. I HATE him.

We KNOW he would LOVE to see a nuke go off in NYC.

I Never thought I would say that about a US pResident.

[Cyman]

Exactly what I thought about Jimmy Stewart in Mr Deeds Goes To Washington. A bigoted filibuster speech about the boys club.

[Kid Shelleen]

Its a little too late for that Professor. If anybody knew about the left and race baiting it should have been you. Johnny Cochrane is probably smiling in his grave.

If the liberal cause fits, you must submit!

[glorgau]

The President had an obligation to use his bully pulpit to try to obtain majority support among voters.

He just didn't care. A crammed down back room deal was easier than going through the effort of attempting to persuade the public. Heaven forbid that some lame going through the motions "public debate" was attempted.

[InterceptPoint]

Dershowitz: Yet, President Obama and his followers in the senate deployed this undemocratic weapon in order to stifle real debate about the nuclear deal with Iran and to prevent the up or down vote promised by the Corker bill.
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Does ANYONE here at FR or any Senator or Congressman or McConnell or Boehner not realize that the Dem threat to filibuster the “up or down vote promised by the Corker bill” guaranteed an Obama victory?

Filibuster was always an option. There was never a doubt that the filibuster threat would be used. There was never ANY POSSIBILITY that the GOP could get the 60 votes to override the Dems and force a vote. And even if they could there is no chance that the votes would be there to override an Obama veto.

Corker is a joke, doomed from the get-go to generate show-votes. In all other regards it was designed to fail.

I’m really tired of this.

[windsorknot]

The ends justify the means. You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet....

[Karl Spooner]

Moreover, opposition to this deal is considerably greater among evangelical Christians than among Jews.

Jesus taught that a lot of Jews claiming to be Jews are not Jews.

[moehoward]

"….those who support the deal should be ashamed of some of the undemocratic tactics and bigoted arguments employed to avoid a real debate and a majority vote."

Applies to pretty much every "accomplishment" from the hussein administration.

[jwalsh07]

Who the hell is Senator “Strom Thurman”?

[Intolerant in NJ]

Undemocratic Tactics and Bigoted Arguments Have Stifled Iran Nuclear Deal Debate...and the incredible stupidity of congressional Republicans who let themselves somehow get maneuvered into the position of requiring two-thirds vote to defeat, rather than pass the deal, which they should have insisted was a treaty because it is - and then instead of resorting to the nuclear option which 'rats have already used for the rather trivial cause of approving a few judges, the 'pubs played straight arrow and allowed the threat of a filibuster stop their vote - to call them the stupid party is an affront to stupid people everywhere......

[joshua c]

It is a tactic available to both sides. Alan, how is it undemocratic if the other side uses it?

Other than the point above, good article.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yeah, you can maybe take the liberal out of Dershowitz but you can’t take Dershowitz out being liberal. Feh.