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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (230826)4/27/2005 9:40:30 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (3) of 1573895
 
"No, it's the "religious party" that is threatening to change the rules wrt filibusters; the nuclear option."

The infuriating thing is they have been lying about their role in psst filibusters, pretending that this is a new, and unconstitutional phenomena. It's not that they are doing it, they are politicians after all, but our so-called journalists let them get away with it. Heck, the other day I was listening to NPR and heard John Cornyn, our very own entry in the dull knife drawer, state in essence that judicial nominations have never been filibustered before. And we needed to do something before a Supreme Court nominee got filibustered, totally shredding the Constitution in the process. I don't know, the Republicans filibustered a Supreme Court nominee in 1968 and the Constitution seems to have survived that crisis. I know, I know, it was different then since it was a Republican filibuster and they did it with the greatest respect of the Constitution...

It is amusing to note that the Republicans are pretending that the Democrats are the only ones using the phrase "nuclear option". Given that a Republican coined the term and that they have been using the phrase consistently until recently makes it seem strange. I guess this is like the term "privatization" in conjunction with Social Security. They just have so much trouble getting the terminology right.
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