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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 10:08 PM Original message |
Poll question: Is anyone here still in favor of retaining the filibuster? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. the tyranny of the minority? |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 10:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. What else do you call what we're seeing in the Senate? |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 07:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
11. And when the numbers change in a future election people here will be crying for that to happen. |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 11:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. hey moron, the whole point of the filibuster was anti-democratic. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 07:02 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. hey |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 11:09 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. The filibuster itself is a type of cheating. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 12:10 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. nope... in our system of checks and balances, it's a check |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
2. Arrest the corporate puppets and drag them through the streets. |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. Keep it - but MAKE THEM stand up & talk all night. |
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burning rain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-24-09 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. Get rid of it. |
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orwell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
7. How can I support the fillibuster... |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 02:24 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Good point. The Senate is our House of Lords. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 07:25 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. The difference is that members of the Senate are elected by the people. |
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WhaTHellsgoingonhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 07:32 AM Response to Original message |
12. Waiting for the "Abolish the Senate" poll |
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whistler162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 07:33 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. That is in the same poll as abolish the US! |
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WhaTHellsgoingonhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 08:14 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Hardly, holmes... |
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whistler162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 08:17 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Actually I am serious.... |
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WhaTHellsgoingonhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 08:27 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. If constitutional amendments are considered anti-American... |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 10:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Works for me. |
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whistler162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
13. Yup... lets remove the fillibuster so that when |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 11:02 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. It's not as if the Republicans don't already push whatever they want through when they're in power. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 12:12 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. No, it's a valuable tool that the Dems are inept at both using and countering |
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ManiacJoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-25-09 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
23. Keep it, but is has to be real. |
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