--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 7/30/07 10:01:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > > jstein@ 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. > > Here's just some of what the Republicans have > obstructed: raising the minimum wage; ethics > reform; immigration reform; Medicare > prescription drug reform; electronic campaign > funding disclosure; funding for renewable energy; > funding for the intelligence community; > appointing conferees on the 9/11 Commission > recommendations. > > "The strategy of being obstructionist can work or > fail....So far it's working for us."--Republican > Whip Senator Trent Lott, April 7, 2007 > > http://democrats.senate.gov/journal/entry.cfm?id=277868
And here's a little cherry to top off this pile of stinking garbage, from Politico's blog The Crypt: Stevens threatens to block ethics bill Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, whose home back in Alaska was raided by federal investigators Monday in a wide-ranging corruption investigation, has threatened to place a hold on the Democratic- drafted ethics legislation just passed by the House and expected on the Senate floor by week's end. The senator told a closed session of fellow Republicans today, including Vice President Dick Cheney, that he was upset that the measure would interfere with his travel to and from Alaska and vowed to block it. And Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), confirming Steven's threat, said bluntly: "There could be a lot of holds on this bill." http://tinyurl.com/2xygjw
