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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (404509)	5/9/2003 10:00:16 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

Of course, I may be underestimating the NEW Senate Republicans. Too much Bob Dole and Trent Lott tends to cloud the vision... washtimes.com

To: JDN who wrote (404509)	5/9/2003 10:08:27 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

The last time the rule of cloture was changed was during the wars over the civil rights acts of the 60's, when it was dropped from 67 to 60. The Senate had been even more clubby back then, but the entrenched and ancient Democrats used their seniority against the tide of history, and got steamrolled as the civil rights laws finally came into being. The crusade of Chuckie Schmuck, Lush Kennedy and Traitor Leahy today is very similar: breaking long-assumed Senate traditions about judicial nominations (and, incidentally, making Orrin Hatch look as senile and feeble as he really is-but I digress). So we may see cloture-which has always been a double-edged sword for both sides-changed once again, almost 40 years later. The civil rights laws were a political and social sea change that the Senate had to be dragged into kicking and screaming. The New Bush Era may well prove to be just as overwhelming a sea change, in the wake of the Clinton cluster of disasters, many of which are only now beginning to be understood by a shocked public...