If Republicans hold on to the Vacant Lott, then every single damn thing we do will be successfully filibustered, and said filibustering will have just enough of a veneer of respectability that it won't be portrayed as cynical partisanship.
Lott has to go, simply because he's a Class A F***-Up.
Filibustered, possibly. Successfully, that would remain to be seen.
I think a good, old-fashioned filibuster would do a lot of good to educate the public on the workings of government, they way that impeachment and Gore 2000 got the people focused on government for a while.
Too many times, recently, just the threat of filibuster was enough to cause compromise. After a while, the threat seems empty. I say that now is the time to force one and see how it actually goes. Let's see how sustainable it is, how the public would react, how the sides will form, how genuine or disengenous the positions and players are.
If Republicans win (with Bush's help), then we regain momentum as the filibuster weapon will have become disarmed.
-PJ
Bump
Absolutely!
And as far as all this "pickin up his marbles and goin home" BS is concerned ... if I'm not mistaken he's up for election in 2004 and if this SOB is not man enough, patriot enough, and Republican enough to stick it our for a year, then f*** him and f*** his party!
If he's even a piece of a man he'll take a backseat role for a year a and then reevaluate.