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Republicans’ Senate Fail-SafePosted on Dec 15, 2006
GOP senators may take a page from the Democrats’ playbook and filibuster the normally routine procedural vote that determines committee chairmanships. The tactic is meant to protect against the possibility, as it did for the Dems after the 2000 election, that Republicans might regain a majority in the Senate. Concerns over the health of South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson raised the chance that Republicans could capture the Senate, and if they do they want to make sure they’ll be allowed to reassign chairmanships that would otherwise remain locked regardless of a power shift.
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By Skruff, December 17, 2006 at 4:01 pm Link to this comment
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R’s D’s Who cares. Crooks are crooks no matter which party they call home. Clinton, Bush Bush Reagan, Carter,Ford, Nixon, Johnson, they all lied. got American Men and women killed to preserve Walmarts right to hire illegals, and build new factories in China, instead of working for US citizens.
So send another 8 Bill to Israel, prop up another right wing dictator, stick nose into business of other countries, and let the boys and girls on Worcester’s south side slide further down the hill into abject poverty.
A pox on both their houses!
Report thisBy DennisD, December 16, 2006 at 12:33 pm Link to this comment
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It’s all one party anyway so what’s the difference. When we the American people gain control of our own government we can celebrate.
Report thisIn the meantime the lines have become so blurred between the two parties I have to wait to see which one Paris or Britney is attending to tell them apart.
By Allen Thomas, December 16, 2006 at 10:22 am Link to this comment
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all this is getting to be a horror story as we see the antics of the monsters who will do anything and everything to hold on to power. I used to hope during the Clinton impeachment debacle that the Constitution would ultimately save the Country. No I have real doubts.
Report thisBy Quy Tran, December 15, 2006 at 6:15 pm Link to this comment
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Political game is always dirty.
Report thisBy SuGee, December 15, 2006 at 3:43 pm Link to this comment
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This is really bad news. But the Democracts wouldn’t have done anything anyway. It is just that we’re suffering from the corporate takeover of our governemnt. It doesn’t matter what the label is, either. I used to think that the citizens of our country could determine what happens. But after 2000 and 2004, when it is clear that both elections were stolen and we get a criminal for president, then it is just so sad.
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