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Zenresistance, Republicans and Democrats play the game, and the American people are the losers!
posted by
MountainClimber57
on May 20, 2005 at 6:25 AM
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Senate rules
are not usually constant. The Senate has the constitutional authority to alter them, by majority. The filibuster rule was changed back in the 70s when President Carter couldn't get his new Cabinet positions and other expansions passed - even with Democratic majority in Congress, and so 51 Senate Democrats voted to change the rules so he could get his agenda passed. FDR and his Democrat majority Congress did the same. In the early 90s, before the "Republican Revolution", Democrats who were in the majority actually locked Republicans out from several key committee meetings, saying they didn't matter since they didn't have enough votes to stop what they were going to do. An almost-brawl between Charles Rangel (NY) and (I think) Richard Shelby (AL) at a conference room door, where Rangel told him exactly that, was on all the networks at the time.
This is nothing new.
The Republicans will do whatever they can to move their agenda forward when they have the big stick, and Democrats will do the same. And everyt time this happens, the minority party whines like a stuck pig.
It's politics. It's the name of the game, and everyone plays the same in DC.
posted by
zenresistance
on May 19, 2005 at 7:39 PM
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Metta, it is truly a sad day in our democratic process!
posted by
MountainClimber57
on May 18, 2005 at 3:17 PM
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amen....
posted by
Metta
on May 18, 2005 at 2:55 PM
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