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Re: McConnell is talking about the *non-binding* (none / 0)

I hope to hell they filibuster.

First, the resolution is NON-BINDING.  So it makes no difference in the real world if it gets 59 votes, or 61 votes, or 100 votes.  Nothing will happen either way.

But a filibuster is different from a vote on the merits.  Voting against cloture means THEY DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO GO ON RECORD.  It means they're afraid to tell the American people where they stand on the escalation, so they insist on talking forever.

It may not win us any elections on its own, but there's some value in pointing out that escalation is so unpopular that even the Republicans who claim to support it are afraid to put their support on record.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 06:42:01 PM EST
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Re: McConnell is talking about the *non-binding* (none / 0)


  But WAIT a minute. I thought that the filibuster was evil and should never, ever be used. Isn't that what the Republicans were saying a year ago?

 


by Master Jack on Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 06:51:16 PM EST
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Re: McConnell is talking about the *non-binding* (none / 0)

the "nuclear option"


.. and when I win the lottery, gonna donate half my money to the city so they have to name a school or a park after me - camper van beethoven
by heyAnita on Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 07:52:38 PM EST
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