--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/26/07 8:31:25 A.M. Central Daylight Time, j > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > One of the major reasons Congress doesn't have better > ratings is that Democrats were elected to do something > about the Bush disaster, and they haven't been able to > accomplish much yet because of all the crap the > administration and the Republicans have been pulling, > refusing to obey subpoenas, withholding documents and > other information on the grounds of "executive privilege," > and filibustering anything the Democrats try to do so > that a 60-vote majority is required to get anything > passed. Not to mention instructing Attorney General > Gonzales to stonewall and lie in hearings, and blocking > any attempt to establish contempt of Congress > proceedings. > > That 60 vote majority came back to bite the Dems in > the ass, didn't it?
You mean, are the Republicans such hypocrites as to use the filibuster after condemning it and threatening to ban it to keep the Democrats from using it when they were in the minority? Goes without saying. It seems there's no hypocrisy that's beyond the Republicans. As you almost certainly know, the Republicans are on their way to *tripling* the average number of filibusters in the preceding several decades: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/18218.html
