Block and blame Republicans

[marmar]

from OurFuture.org:



Block and blame Republicans
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on December 3, 2007 - 11:33am.


We've been saying it for months. The New York Times finally gets with the program:

Conservatives have been sabotaging majority rule in the Senate, then blaming Democrats for running a "do-nothing" Congress.

The Times' stats are slightly different than ours, but the message is the same:

The filibuster may be well established in the popular consciousness — think of long-winded senators speechifying for days. But because modern Senate rules allow lawmakers to avoid the spectacle of pontificating by merely threatening the act, filibusters and the efforts to overcome them are being used more frequently, and on more issues, than at any other point in history.

So far in this first year of the 110th Congress, there have been 72 motions to stop filibusters, most on the Iraq war but also on routine issues like reauthorizing Amtrak funding. There were 68 such motions in the full two years of the previous Congress, 53 in 1987-88 and 23 in 1977-78. In 1967-68, there were 5 such votes, one of them on a plan to amend cloture itself, which failed.

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/block_and_blame_republicans_0?tx=3

[bryant69]

1. And of course Democrats were called obstructionists

for even that mild amount of filibustering.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Rex]

2. Republicans are dirty tacticians and not worthy of Congressional seats.

Evil bastards that shut down committees and the lights, if need be. Not ones to follow their own rules or call the cops on ya if they don't like what you say. Bamboozlers and embezzlers. Sick, twisted freaks that would sell their mother for a dollar.

[AX10]

3. That is why we have to elect PROGRESSIVE Democrats.

[HughMoran]

4. "Block and Blame" - I like that meme

I may use it!

[dbackjon]

5. Me too!!

[maine_raptor]

6. I like it too! With one change

Block and Blame Publicans (Hey, if they can mangle our party's name.........)