A Democrat Shows Some Balls

Now....pardon me if I'm wrong, but filibuster means someone waffling on and on until the session expires, thereby causing the whole thing to go tits up, doesn't it?

That means Kerry will need some help with a speech that uses ten words where one would have sufficed, methinks.

Shall I volunteer my services?

Nowadays, a "filibuster" only tables that particular item and the rest of the Senate's business continues as usual. Nobody stands up and reads from a book on the senate floor.

It's more like a motion to continue debate at a later date, and it requires 60 votes to close discussion on the bill.

I think it's nothing more than a ploy to entice the GOP to bring on the nuclear option, with the Dem's hopefully anticipating a negative public reaction.

I think it's up in the air as to which way public sentiment may go--but it may work for them.

It may work against them. I really couldn't call it. I was definitely wrong about the public sentiment surrounding Schiavo.

Lord Ellpus wrote:

Now....pardon me if I'm wrong, but filibuster means someone waffling on and on until the session expires, thereby causing the whole thing to go tits up, doesn't it?

That means Kerry will need some help with a speech that uses ten words where one would have sufficed, methinks.

Shall I volunteer my services?

With the danger of exposing my ignorance:

Filibusters have changed from the days of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Nowadays, a "filibuster" only tables that particular item and the rest of the Senate's business continues as usual. Nobody stands up and reads from a book on the senate floor.

It's more like a motion to continue debate at a later date, and it requires 60 votes to close discussion on the bill.

The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa