--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/30/07 10:01:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > 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: > > Ah, but Judy, they didn't ban it, did they? And of course > you know the difference in how the Republicans used the > filibuster and the Democrats used it. The Republicans used > it to protect the power of the Presidency put forth in the > constitution, to select federal judges, establish foreign > policy and to act as Commander in Chief. The Democrats have > used the filibuster to stall and delay and now want to dictate > foreign policy from the Congressional level as well as > interfere in the duties of the Commander in Chief.
MDixon, you have Kool-Aid poisoning. What a ludicrous litany.
