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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate?
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To: longnshort who wrote (4043)6/17/2005 12:14:45 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (2) of 9838
 
The filibuster is an anti-democratic instrument that upsets the delicate system of checks and balances already written into the Constitution. Liberal Democrats in the Senate aren't in favor of lynching, but they are fighting to preserve a reactionary weapon that, in future wrenching national debates, will empower obstructionists to kidnap that body just as they did during the civil rights debates. Not acknowledging that the filibuster was at issue in the lynching context, not even to address the filibuster's tarnished history, amounts to intellectual cowardice.

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