On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The New York Times has an article today about Tom > Coburn, a right-wing, antiabortionist, > ultraconservative, probably wingnut. > > Coburn makes a practice of putting folds on > legislation techniques that needs with this > disapproval. Where was the Democratic senator who > hold the spying bill or war funding? > > I do not know if he has strong principles or if he is > just playing to his conservative constituency, but I > wish that the Democrats have somebody with a tenacity > to do something other than to cower before the > right-wing. > >
Actually at various points Democratic Senators have tried to put holds on various repulsive things. It is just that the Democratic leadership can choose not to honor holds, and Coburn's holds are honored, whereas when it comes to FISA Democratic holds are not. Carrol, the role between grassroots groups and U.S. political parties is more complex than your description. I always liked Einsteins crack about making hypotheses as simple as possible, but no simpler... _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
