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Monday, January 30, 2006

Nothing like a pointless show of weakness to energize the base

The Senate voted, 72 to 25, to shut off debate and hold a vote on confirmation Tuesday morning. Sixty votes are needed to shut off debate, and 41 to keep one going, so opponents of the nominee fell far short this afternoon. - New York Times, January 30, 2006
So what was the point of the futile, self-styled "filibuster," exactly? In the future, I would suggest a lot more communication between Senators Kennedy and Kerry and the Minority Whip.


posted at 5:06 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

funny spin on this.

January 31, 2006 1:32 PM  

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