If you open your window, you might actually hear the collective "awwwwww" coming from the voices of disappointed Americans everywhere. I know I said it, but mine came with a grin as wide as William Howard Taft's waistline.
Maybe republicans could actually complain about an effort to gain a filibuster-proof majority if not for this:
Oh, that must be all: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/10/26/AR2005032201677.html
And some of this: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/060429
Granted much of this discussion was spurred by the issue of judicial filibusters, efforts to prevent Bush appointees from being seated in various courts. Clearly the presence of Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts on the Supreme Court shows how serious Democrats were about actually doing something a few years ago. Wait...
That's right, they didn't do anything! At any rate, Republican criticism of filibusters obviously came without the least bit of hypocritical leanings:
Ah well. At least since Democrats took control of Congress, the G.O.P has been using filibusters for only the most practical and integral reasons:
Must be tough to be a pro-choice senator from Pennsylvania while trying to maintain some semblance of stature within the modern Republican Party. From my perspective, it seems tough
to maintain the visage of a human being in today's G.O.P.
Maybe I'm the only person in America who equates the notion of a small and limited government with not telling people what to do with their bodies.
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You beat me to the punch on this one, Edmund. We must think alike, because my post was gonna be titled "Awwwww Hell Yeah!" This is what they get for stalling Al Franken and needlessly taking time away from real issues, not to mention the millions of tax dollars they continue to waste.
Living in Pennsylvania just got a whole lot better, didn't it?
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