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Yupster
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Fri Nov-14-03 06:26 PM
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1. Who were the two Democratic senators who voted with the 51 Republicans for closure? I'm assuming Miller was one.
2. What would be a good end for this? I kept asking the same question during the Texas fleeing situation. There didn't ever seem to be an endgame other than the other side needs to back down.
Personally, I don't think it would be a good end if the precedent is firmly established that either party could block any and all judges they don't like with 41 votes. I see that inevitably escalating into each side blocking everybody. I guess an answer would be to only block "extremist" judges, but then who's an extremist? You can't go by what the other party says. That just seems silly. Any Democratically nominated judge considered "extremist" by the GOP must be withdrawn. Well that's easy. Then they're all extremists.
Anyway, what's the endgame in all this?
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