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To: RetiredNow who wrote (5893)	3/10/2009 1:36:18 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 86350

Given the existence of a handful of pretty liberal Republican Senators, its very hard to mount a filibuster. Look at porkulus. the Republicans were responsible for the last 8 years of fiscal profligacy Six of them anyway. Note I'm not using filibusters as an attempt to deny they controlled Congress for 6 of those years.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (5893)	3/19/2009 12:18:08 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86350

if you'll grant that the GOP can stop that agenda cold with a unified front and a filibuster The GOP (and the Democratic party as well) is not a unified thing. If some small fraction of either party supports an initiative of the other and it passes then the majority party, and the small faction are responsible, but not the minority party, that's almost unified in opposition, as a whole. and if you'll grant that the Republicans were responsible for the last 8 years of fiscal profligacy that lead to the largest drop in the DOW since the Great Depression They bear a strong majority of the responsibility for the profligacy, but not all of it. But the fiscal profligacy was a relatively small factor in the economic and financial situation we faced. Also the Democrats are being even more profligate now.