Five filibusters conservatives wish you would forget

Filibusters Conservatives Wish You Would Forget
From turning their backs on workers to kowtowing to big tobacco, Senate conservatives have been there and done that.

By Elana Berkowitz, Campus Progress

Trying to justify the use of the “nuclear option,” conservatives like to claim that Democratic filibusters are “unprecedented.” The last month or so has been filled with legislators like Senator Frist shedding histrionic crocodile tears over those vicious Democrats who are supposedly holding all of America hostage with their filibustering ways as they try to occasionally throw an inconvenient wrench into the conservative world domination machine. The whole thing is just a wee bit farcical. Filibusters, when used well, can be a check to prevent the exercise of tyrannical raw power against the minority. When conservatives were in the minority, they engaged in quite a few filibusters of their own in support of some pretty lousy policies. How about we refresh your memory?


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:toast:

In October 2001, as the psychic and economic wounds of the September 11 th attacks were still very much raw, Senate Republicans filibustered a bill that would have provided aid to 150,000 aviation industry workers laid off due to the terror attacks. The bill, authored by Democrat Jean Carnanhan of Missouri, had enough votes to pass but 44 Republicans wouldn’t let it go to a vote.

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch led a filibuster in 1988 against minimum wage legislation authored by, you guessed it, Senator Ted Kennedy. The legislation would have raised the $3.35 minimum wage for the first time since 1981, bringing it to $3.75 an hour by the following year and a whopping $4.55 by 1991.

But they somehow get the "lunch bucket" republicans to vote a straight ticket for them.

Why would anyone who wears a name tag to work even consider such an option?

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Sen. Byrd that led that filibuster, most Democrats supported the CRA.

NGU.