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To: Paul Smith who wrote (140241)	7/3/2010 2:27:42 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543024

Yeah, the Republican Party is the Party of "no" And The Washington Examiner is a serious paper. Not. Paul, these are terribly pressing issues that the Reps have decided to filibuster and thus to stop even their members who want to vote for bills from doing so. The healthcare bill was, in my estimation, the paradigmatic one but the paradigm fits several others. Individual Rep senators work with the Dems to get agreements that would make it possible for that senator to vote for it. But that senator then joins the filibuster. If one assumes the senators were acting in good faith (not simply a delaying tactic), then you have to see it as the Rep leadership threatened the senator with some sort of retaliation. I don't see any other explanation. So the Reps have changed the nature of congressional bill passage such that a majority no longer works; it takes a super majority. And that's completely new in American legislative history. Not the use of the filibuster but the amount and the strategy.