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To: combjelly who wrote (556890)	3/24/2010 8:27:49 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571153

CJ, cloture can be called for anything. You don't need an active filibuster to call for cloture. Reid complained about the number of cloture motions in 2008, but many of the motions passed overwhelmingly. Equating those with "filibusters" is stupid because no party that wants to invoke a filibuster would then vote for cloture. In any case, no one has made a bigger spectacle over filibusters than Harry Reid. This while he didn't even try hard to get anything done while Bush was still in office. By the way, the attempts to get Republicans on-board with health care is no different than Bush's attempts to get Democrats on-board with his agenda. How much credit did Bush get for reaching across the aisle and letting Democrats write bills on education and prescription drug benefits? Absolutely zero. I don't see any reason why Obama should get credit for reaching across the aisle when he had even less desire of actually letting Republicans define anything. Tenchusatsu