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It's pretty bad but filibuster reform will never happen, no one wants to give up the only weapon the minority has in congress. It's also too bad that it has come to such a horrible pass, that a tactic that was once saved for important stuff is now used uniformly to make the other party look bad at the expense of the country. GOP uber alles.
It's pretty bad but filibuster reform will never happen, no one wants to give up the only weapon the minority has in congress. It's also too bad that it has come to such a horrible pass, that a tactic that was once saved for important stuff is now used uniformly to make the other party look bad at the expense of the country. GOP uber alles.
Your boy Barry should have thought of that before he blurted you "You got to ride in the back of the bus."
The biggest probelm Obama has is that he tries to pretend 2010 didn't happen.
It's pretty bad but filibuster reform will never happen, no one wants to give up the only weapon the minority has in congress. It's also too bad that it has come to such a horrible pass, that a tactic that was once saved for important stuff is now used uniformly to make the other party look bad at the expense of the country. GOP uber alles.
Your boy Barry should have thought of that before he blurted you "You got to ride in the back of the bus."
The biggest probelm Obama has is that he tries to pretend 2010 didn't happen.
Nothing President Obama has done was anything near what the Republicans and Bush did to Democrats between 2001 - 2006. And Democrats (who I think were spineless), quietly excepted a good deal of Bush policy, lest they be called traitors.
Your boy Barry should have thought of that before he blurted you "You got to ride in the back of the bus."
The biggest probelm Obama has is that he tries to pretend 2010 didn't happen.
Nothing President Obama has done was anything near what the Republicans and Bush did to Democrats between 2001 - 2006. And Democrats (who I think were spineless), quietly excepted a good deal of Bush policy, lest they be called traitors.
They were traitors.
They went along with a war they didn't agree with when the polls said it was popular and sandbagged it when they said it was not.
And in ten years, when the shit really hits the fan over there, expect the GOP to hit these jokers with a "Stabbed in the Back" claim. Kind of like Reagan was able to do after Vietnam.
Nothing President Obama has done was anything near what the Republicans and Bush did to Democrats between 2001 - 2006. And Democrats (who I think were spineless), quietly excepted a good deal of Bush policy, lest they be called traitors.
They were traitors.
They went along with a war they didn't agree with when the polls said it was popular and sandbagged it when they said it was not.
And in ten years, when the shit really hits the fan over there, expect the GOP to hit these jokers with a "Stabbed in the Back" claim. Kind of like Reagan was able to do after Vietnam.
That doesn't make them traitors..that makes them spineless. And given the very clever way that the Bush/Cheney administration cherry picked and lied about intel..and merged it with patriotic fervor..it would have required a good deal of backbone to oppose it.
Nothing President Obama has done was anything near what the Republicans and Bush did to Democrats between 2001 - 2006. And Democrats (who I think were spineless), quietly excepted a good deal of Bush policy, lest they be called traitors.
They were traitors.
They went along with a war they didn't agree with when the polls said it was popular and sandbagged it when they said it was not.
And in ten years, when the shit really hits the fan over there, expect the GOP to hit these jokers with a "Stabbed in the Back" claim. Kind of like Reagan was able to do after Vietnam.
That doesn't make them traitors..that makes them spineless. And given the very clever way that the Bush/Cheney administration cherry picked and lied about intel..and merged it with patriotic fervor..it would have required a good deal of backbone to oppose it.
It's pretty bad but filibuster reform will never happen, no one wants to give up the only weapon the minority has in congress. It's also too bad that it has come to such a horrible pass, that a tactic that was once saved for important stuff is now used uniformly to make the other party look bad at the expense of the country. GOP uber alles.
Your boy Barry should have thought of that before he blurted you "You got to ride in the back of the bus."
The biggest probelm Obama has is that he tries to pretend 2010 didn't happen.
Nothing President Obama has done was anything near what the Republicans and Bush did to Democrats between 2001 - 2006. And Democrats (who I think were spineless), quietly excepted a good deal of Bush policy, lest they be called traitors.
To gauge the relationship between the filibuster and national majority rulethe kind where everybody counts equally, and the representatives of the majority carry the dayit's necessary to look at the data.
To do this, I downloaded records of all Senate votes on cloture motionsused to limit debatefrom 1991 to 2008. For each of the 152 votes where a filibuster successfully thwarted a Senate majority, I tallied the populations represented by the senators who supported the filibuster. (A more technical explanationincluding some significant details I've glossed overis available here.)
What do these calculations reveal? First, over the past two decades or so, the senators who successfully filibustered something represented about 46 percent of Americans on average. Yes, that is a minoritybut it is a far cry from the nightmare scenarios sometimes deployed by opponents of the filibuster, who worry that as little as 11 percent or 12 percent of the country could obstruct popular legislation. Since 1991, in fact, there have been only four filibusters0.03 percent of the totalthat thwarted senators representing more than 65 percent of the American people.
What's most striking, though, are the many cases in which the filibustering Senate minority has actually represented a majority of Americans. In fact, in 40 percent of the filibusters since 1991, the senators making up the "obstructionist" minority represented more people than the majority they defeated.
As this discussion gets under way, however, reformers should remember that the filibuster sometimes protects the kind of majority rule that it is usually assumed to undercut. We should do what we can to preserve this democratic function. That might mean pursuing the kind of moderate compromisesimply reducing the number of votes needed to end a filibusterthat has the best chance of succeeding anyway.
It's pretty bad but filibuster reform will never happen, no one wants to give up the only weapon the minority has in congress. It's also too bad that it has come to such a horrible pass, that a tactic that was once saved for important stuff is now used uniformly to make the other party look bad at the expense of the country. GOP uber alles.
Your boy Barry should have thought of that before he blurted you "You got to ride in the back of the bus."
The biggest probelm Obama has is that he tries to pretend 2010 didn't happen.
Nothing President Obama has done was anything near what the Republicans and Bush did to Democrats between 2001 - 2006. And Democrats (who I think were spineless), quietly excepted a good deal of Bush policy, lest they be called traitors.
It's this bullshit that has Congressional approval ratings at their lowest levels EVER.
The majority of Americans want compromise. Republicans see that as a dirty word.
Nothing President Obama has done was anything near what the Republicans and Bush did to Democrats between 2001 - 2006. And Democrats (who I think were spineless), quietly excepted a good deal of Bush policy, lest they be called traitors.
It's this bullshit that has Congressional approval ratings at their lowest levels EVER.
The majority of Americans want compromise. Republicans see that as a dirty word.
It's this bullshit that has Congressional approval ratings at their lowest levels EVER.
The majority of Americans want compromise. Republicans see that as a dirty word.
Compromise is a dirty word when it involves compromising your principles. In any compromise between good and evil, the later always wins and the former always loses.
Where is the evidence that Americans want compromise? What they really want is for the country's problems to get solved, and that wont happen by giving DimoRATs what they want. DimoRATs are the cause of all our problems.