Posted by Todd Zywicki:
Filibuster Deal Fall-Out:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_06_12-2005_06_18.shtml#1118932438
I am reading increasing reports about home state, grass roots fall-out
from the filibuster deal. [1]This column criticizing Sen. Ken Salazar
of Colorado and [2]this one about Sen. Lidsey Graham are illustrative.
Especially interesting is the difference in perception of the deal
back home versus inside the beltway. Consider this passage from The
State newspaper in Columbia, SC:
WASHINGTON â In Washington, South Carolinaâs Lindsey Graham is
being lauded for helping pull the U.S. Senate back from the
partisan brink of a filibuster crisis.
In South Carolina, the Seneca Republican is trying to control the
damage.
âThe calls wonât quit, and theyâre almost all against Lindsey,â
state Republican Party chairman Katon Dawson said.
Dawson counted more than 900 phone calls to party headquarters in
36 hours â mostly from people who helped elevate Graham from the
House to the Senate in 2002.
If the deal isn't playing very well at home, and if pushed to the
constitutional/nuclear option eventually, I wonder if the long-term
fall-out from the filibuster deal will be to actually increase the
size of the majority voting in favor?
References
1.
http://daily.gazette.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VGhlR2F6ZXR0ZS8yMDA1LzA2LzEyI0FyMDM1MDE=&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom
2. http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/11730524.htm
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