Filibuster Flip Flop and Total Recall
by matt at 12:00 am on September 20th, 2006 in Bill Frist, MediaDissidents’ Detainee Bill May Face Filibuster (WaPo):
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist signaled yesterday that he and other White House allies will filibuster a bill dealing with the interrogation and prosecution of detainees if they cannot persuade a rival group of Republicans to rewrite key provisions opposed by President Bush.
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Frist (R-Tenn.) acknowledged that a majority of the 100 senators back the rival group on military commissions but that there are not enough to block a filibuster, which requires a super-majority of 60.
Those champions of journalism Charles Babington and Jonathan Weisman managed to write a story about Frist threatening a filibuster without mentioning that Frist was ready to kill the right to filibuster with the nuclear option. UP OR DOWN VOTE!!!!!!!!
If they can train chimps to remember combinations of words, why can’t Post reporters Babington and Weisman recall that the union of “Frist” and “filibuster” has historical significance? And while we’re at it, why do Beavis and Butthead even bother putting the Rs after peoples’ names when not even one Democrat was mentioned in their little homework assignment?
That’s some fine work, boys. Keep it up.
TV wrote:
Matt, get your facts straight. The nuclear option was for judicial candidates only. Read the article you linked to, dude.
Posted 20 Sep 2006 at 5:42 am ¶
matt wrote:
a filibuster is a filibuster, holmes.
Posted 20 Sep 2006 at 6:01 am ¶
sarabeth wrote:
Weren’t there some choice words by Republicans at the time about how the filibuster was the major impediment to the practice of democracy in America today? Some serious talk of doing away with the filibuster forever?
And if only I had a dime for every time someone pointed out that one of these days the Republicans were going to want to use the filibuster themselves, and they’d look pretty damn silly then.
Posted 20 Sep 2006 at 6:06 am ¶