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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-10 06:36 PM
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14. So do you support Republican procedural filibusters and don't want to end that privilege?

Is that what's going on here?

First, let me point out that Republicans can only leave the Senate chamber or Washington, D.C. during a filibuster if it's a phantom "procedural" filibuster, the kind that Democrats permit Republicans to engage in. That's the problem with this procedure and you want to preserve it?

Perhaps you just don't understand the difference between a procedural filibuster and a real filibuster.

Or perhaps you're just against ending any kind of Republican filibusters because you think Republicans will permit Democrats to filibuster when they become a minority in the Senate and you don't want Democrats to lose that privilege under a Republican Senate majority.

Is that it?

Fear? Fear of Republicans?

Let's get to the bottom of your possible support for Republican procedural filibusters.

Out with it!

I'm listening.





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