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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-13-06 05:02 PM
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55. Thanks for your helping of demagoguery
A filibuster could just as easily blow up in our face -- as when the Republicans shut down the government ten years ago. And our base doesn't need to be rallied -- the problem is that our base won't win an election. We need the base and a vast swath of the independent voters. And these are precisely the voters who are put off by this behavior.

Let me be clear, however. I'm not saying that a filibuster is necessarily a bad idea -- a three day event, if properly stage-managed, could be enormously helpful. The point of my original post is that it won't change the outcome of the vote and we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking that it will.
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