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To: Owen

“Filubuster has its own wiki. It’s a very conservative thing.”

It was when bad legislation was something to be prevented rather than overturned.


283 posted on 03/25/2017 5:10:15 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

You don’t get to pick that. The other side would disagree 180 degs.

In a large, ideological sense, conservatism opposes rapid change. The filibuster aligns with that core conservative perspective. The litmus tests du jour (immigration, abortion, Obamacare) are all ephemeral.


284 posted on 03/25/2017 5:23:01 PM PDT by Owen
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