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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (179050)	1/11/2012 12:15:57 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541787

But they don't talk the talk. Jimmy Stewart talked the talk. youtube.com These days, I imagine they just send an email or something. Funny thing, you might remember back around 2005 when the "nuclear option" was last flirted with. en.wikipedia.org . Wish the Democratic Senate had the guts to do stuff like that. As far as constitutionality goes, it seems fine that the Congress operate under whatever rules it chooses. In some broad sense, it doesn't seem fine that the Congress get to cripple the Executive branch in its constitutional duties to carry out the law by refusing to let executive appointments even be considered. Of course, in the "original intent" sense that conservatives like to bloviate about, I think the framers would laugh, or cry, or maybe both at the same time, at the idea that Congress could be "in session" by virtue of somebody pounding a gavel in an empty chamber once a week.