--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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
