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muchacho

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Wed Nov-09-05 01:29 PM
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Frist want some feedback...

go and give him some:

Drawing The Line In The Sand

Last week's absurd, unwarranted and disingenuous call for a closed session of the United States Senate sent me a clear message: Many Democrats have decided to mock the Senate's rules in the name of partisan advantage. For more than three years, the Democrats have abused Senate rules to impede the judicial nomination process. To do this, they used a technique called the filibuster--a refusal to end debate and vote.

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murielm99

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Wed Nov-09-05 01:31 PM
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1. Mocking the senate rules in the name of partisan advantage...

just like the times they closed things down to discuss Clinton's sex life?

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tridim

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Wed Nov-09-05 01:55 PM
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3. Not to mention that the senate rules were followed by the Dems

How can one mock rules that are followed to the letter?

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politicaholic

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Wed Nov-09-05 01:40 PM
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2. He's such an ass...Republicans have used fillibuster many times...

Republicans were the first to employ it against a presidential chief judicial nominee in 1968. Fillibuster rolled off of the lips of the republican senate in the 90's like it was made of chocolate as a "right". Now they want to take that right away.

Assholes.

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drb

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Wed Nov-09-05 02:34 PM
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4. I thought Billy boy might feel bad becuase...

...someone knew the rules better than he did. So I sent him a cookie.

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