Except, of course, that this wasn't actually a filibuster. He could have filibustered if he'd had 39 other votes to sustain him. This bill was just brought in under rules that specified a limited time of debate. Because Cruz really wanted to talk, they yielded basically all the time to him. He ended up reading Green Eggs and Ham instead of having constructive debate, but whatever. It wasn't any sort of procedural move that had any impact on the actual bill, however. Just grandstanding.
Judah On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:55 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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?" > > Until Later! > C. Hatton Humphrey > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com > > Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some > smelting to find it. > > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Sam - I was referring to the 'procedural vote' to begin debating the > House > > bill. If he is so against what will happen, why not vote against that, > too? > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:367330 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
