Frist busted on "constitutional" argument
Palefire:
Quote from: zorkpolitics on May 20, 2005, 10:07:13 PM
Quote from: Texasgurl on May 18, 2005, 05:26:07 PM
I personaly don't care about the whole issue.
It's just mind boggling how hypocritical the republicans are being just to get their way.
Why are you surprised that the party that won the last election should expect to get their way? Should not the majority party have the responsibility to implement their nominees and policies? If their nominees are idiots or their policies fail, the voters can choose an alternative party at the next election.
DO you actually support filibusters when their major use over the last 200 yrs has been first to defend slavery, then to prevent passage of civil rights legislation? Do you actually support using filibusters against judicial nominations, a tactic never used for 200 yr? Never used because it was assumed the Constitution required a majority vote? BTW, the Clinton administration prepared legal briefs demonstrating that filibusters were unconstitutional.
If you want to focus on hypocrites, why not nearly every Democratic Senator who was in office in the early 1990's and railed against the "anti-majoritarian" filibuster then, yet today those same Senators now ascribe more veneration to the filibuster than to the constitution itself.
More of what is wrong with this country. We have two parties that use the same arguments against each other over and over again depending upon which is the majority and which is the minority at that point in time. Neither side tries to correct the problems of this government; they just try to take advantage of being the majority as long as they can. Now it is the Republicans turn on top - and do their supporters want to fix anything - No, they just want to justify their abuses by noting that the other side did it as well. And so the cycle continues. How special.
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