On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:55 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]>wrote:
> > The fact that he voted to continue debate isn't surprising. In the end my > guess is that he wanted to ensure that the issue was discussed at all, > which I'm pretty sure Reid et al didn't want. > Reid agreed to let him talk during that time. Then he called him names for talking. > Personally I think he should have held his filibuster until the debate over > Reid's declared amendment that would strip the ACA defunding from the > budget. Then again, there may we be very little debate over the Senate > version and that's why he chose the time that he did. > That's what this was about. Once they have cloture, Reid can strip out the SCA bit and push it through with 51 votes and no discussion. At least now some people heard why he thinks it's so awful. > He also didn't break the record for the longest filibuster, that credit > goes to Strom Thurmond, at the time a Democrat, who spoke for 24 hours 18 > minutes against the Civil Rights Act in 1957. According to > http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/tp/Five-Longest-Filibusters.htmthere > were 57 days worth of filibuster on that piece of legislation. > > It's part of what Senators *do*. It's been done since the mid-1800's by > members of both party. For me it's a "meh" point because I seriously > believe that in the near future someone else is going to decry the ills of > the health care system and push for a new series of reforms. Politicians > need issues to run on, and whether or not the ACA is funded, works or > doesn't, someone somewhere will use medical costs and the uninsured as a > platform. > > Funny thing is Obama's speech writers came up with Obamacare for an applause line. They were never serious about it originally. > I heard a talk show host say one time, "think about this for a minute - > career politicians are always calling for reforms of systems they may well > have put in place. Doesn't that mean they screwed up in the first place?" > > Not one Republican voted for this. . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367329 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
