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That Funny Feeling
Senate Democrats might force Republicans to wage a filibuster if the GOP wants to block the latest Iraq withdrawal bill, aides and senators said Tuesday.That could set the stage for a dramatic end-of-the-year partisan showdown, which Democrats hope will help them turn voter frustration with Congress and the stalemate over Iraq into anger with the Republican Party.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), the number two Democrat in the chamber, said a forced filibuster is “possible” and would “generate attention.”
“We want to go to the bill, and [Republicans] have to decide initially whether they want us to go to the bill,” Durbin said. “I wouldn’t call it theatrics.”
I have to wonder why this is coming from Durbin and not Reid? I wonder if Durbin and others are fed up with Reid's complete misunderstanding of the way the real world operates vis-a-vis Republican gameplaying and public perception.
If this is true, then it would account for that funny feeling I am having...I think it's called hope.
I'd be interested in hearing what folks think is going on behind the doors of leadership, since for months and month, a large majority of the Democratic party faithful have been urging House and Seante leadership to force the Republicans to their feet on a filibuster showdown.
I say if the Republicans want to filibuster, let them actually filibuster. But they haven't been filibustering. They have been threatening to filibuster. Big difference.
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I do not have that same funny feeling. Nope. No hope here.
I am sorry but with Feinstein taking a little trip on airforce one and then voting for torture. And then Shumer doing the same. Then a lack of filibuster on that nomination... Then a lack of impeachment which if Bush had a "D" by his name would have happened 4 years ago...
Well, I'm not feeling hopeful that Reid, Pelosi, Hoyer, Feinstein and other are recognising that they are not representing the majority of American. Instead they are playing to the 'old' rules and unrealistic politics instead of standing up for truth.
When Edwards, Clinton, Obama start talking impeachment and when they VOTE AGAINST torture and war instead of just saying it, THEN and only then, will I feel any hope.
(Sorry to rain on your parade with a rant.)
Correction...
Edwards can't vote. But Obama and Hilary can. Yet they didn't.
Also, my grammer was wrong. Didn't mean to indicate that Shumer took a trip on airforce one...only Feinstein did.