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Offline USA4ME

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primitive calls for totalitarian rule
« on: December 12, 2008, 09:20:29 AM »
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Obama isn't going to pass squat unless the filibuster is history

We just saw that the Republicans are willing to push this economy over the brink in order to kill the UAW and advance the interests of their corporate masters back home in their right-to-work states. The Republican minority is extreme and sectional. They will stall progress in the Senate the same way their Dixiecrat forefathers did. Those Southern Senators managed to block Civil Rights legislation for one hundred years. One hundred years!

What makes you think that James Inhofe won't be able to be the pointman on a filibuster of Obama's environmental program the way Richard Shelby was on the auto bailout? Or that Mitch McConnell won't kill his health care proposal?

When the new Senate meets in January the standing rules should not be adopted. Before the standing rules are adopted by the new Senate majority rules. The Democratic majority should kill the filibuster once and for all. It has been the enemy of progress more than it has been the defender of it from rollback. It is harder to get progressive legislation passed than it is to defend it.

I'm sure this will never happen, but it ought to.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4637273

If someone at FR or here had suggested this, wouldn't they have called it.......... fascism?

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Re: primitive calls for totalitarian rule
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2008, 09:26:46 AM »
Can't let a little thing like the Constitution get in the way of their Totalitarian dreams can we? Besides, it was written by old dead white men who owned slaves right?  :whatever:
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Offline jukin

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Re: primitive calls for totalitarian rule
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2008, 10:02:22 AM »
Scratch a liberal, find a fascist.
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Re: primitive calls for totalitarian rule
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2008, 10:06:20 AM »
It's very likely at this point that Bush will kick GM and Chriysler some bailout money and obviate the whole sorry mess in Congress, so nothing will be settled in the long run but it will move on to being Obama's problem.
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