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Subject: Feingold? Objection!!
Bart, you wrote:
> For
some reason, Coburn and Inhofe have the power to block ANYTHING Obama
does,
> but
Feingold sat on his hands while Bush was busy destroying the middle
class of this once-great nation .
I'm calling you on being out of reality.
I like that!
And it works extra good if you
can back that up :)
Do you know how the Okie
Idiots can block anything, just on their say-so?
They state that they will filibuster it. The Republicans will
then stand behind them
and support the filibuster, so it would require 60 votes to overcome
their block.
I knew that.
Now assume
someone--Feingold, Sanders, Kennedy, or another from the liberal
section of the
Senate Democratic Caucus--threatened to filibuster one of George II's
policies. Are you really
that certain that the Senate Democratic Caucus in the Senate would back
him? Even 41 of them?
He'd have lost, at the
least, all the Blue Dogs and Lieberman. The filibuster would be
broken.
This was done a large number of times during the Bush regime, and
virtually every time enough
Democrats jumped ship to break the filibuster.
Russ
So you're saying if it's likely to fail there's no reason
to even try?
Even on torture and illegal surveillance and wars and
kidnapping/renditions and murders?
Why couldn't Feingold be a man and pull a real filibuster
and get TWO other senators to speak for him while he pees?
Couldn't they have at least pretended to try to stop Bush?
Senate Democrats stand there and advertise, "We're powerless."
Thanks for the tangle.
(short temper due to lingering pain issues)