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Time to Retire the Filibuster [NYT Editorial 1-1-95] (A must read)
US Congressional Record ^ | 1-1-1995 | ??

Posted on 04/27/2005 5:16:17 PM PDT by OXENinFLA

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To: Mo1
the filibuster has become the tool of the sore loser

That's telling it like it is Senator Harkin! On the subject of "loser" go reign in that loser of yours Al Gore and remind him to read this article.

41 posted on 04/27/2005 6:28:56 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Matthew 16:18)
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To: OXENinFLA

I love it when the Democrats get tangled up in their own traps.


42 posted on 04/27/2005 6:31:27 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Matthew 16:18)
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To: OXENinFLA

Dittohead ping!


43 posted on 04/27/2005 6:36:15 PM PDT by torchthemummy ("Sober Idealism Equals Pragmatism")
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To: Mo1

My, my. How times have changed, eh?


44 posted on 04/27/2005 6:42:17 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever killed or captured.)
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To: OXENinFLA

"By the time the measure came to a fourth vote--with votes occurring no more frequently than every second day--cloture could be invoked with only a simple majority. Under the Harkin plan, minority members who feel passionately about a given measure could still hold it up, but not indefinitely."


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SUPERB FIND!!!

Actually we do not need to excerpt from the NYT.


45 posted on 04/27/2005 6:43:21 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: OXENinFLA; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; Dog Gone; blam

Excellent research!


46 posted on 04/27/2005 6:43:25 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: OXENinFLA

Fantastic!!!

Someone should post this on DU with no added commentary. See how long it would last.


47 posted on 04/27/2005 6:45:33 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray, pray, pray that we as a people are deserving of godly leaders.)
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To: OXENinFLA

Powerline, Hugh Hewitt, Captains Quarters, InstaPundit, check this out, huh?


48 posted on 04/27/2005 6:59:49 PM PDT by vanagoner
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To: 68skylark

I'm stealing it for my tagline.. hehehe


49 posted on 04/27/2005 7:02:23 PM PDT by Dubya-M-Dees (The filibuster has become the tool of the sore loser.)
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To: OXENinFLA

Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Colter, Ingraham, Savage, Reagan, Hedgecock, Elder, Humphries etc, check this out, huh?


50 posted on 04/27/2005 7:06:50 PM PDT by vanagoner
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To: OXENinFLA
Isn't the Internet and LexisNexis wonderful?
51 posted on 04/27/2005 7:09:08 PM PDT by CaptainK
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To: CaptainK

Forgive me for being a bit stupid, buy why is it that this information is not being distributed to everyone with a brain or a computer by the GOP? Why is it that OXENinFLA had to do the GOP's work for them? Don't they have access to Lexis-Nexis? Yikes!


52 posted on 04/27/2005 7:25:43 PM PDT by vanagoner
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To: CaptainK

What REALLY troubles me is that this post, which I believe has enormous significance, might very well evaporate into the blogworld abyss. Why would we let that happen?


53 posted on 04/27/2005 7:35:37 PM PDT by vanagoner
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To: OXENinFLA; Smartass; MeekOneGOP; tame

Excellent research!

The NYT wanted to end the filibuster when the GOP minority used it......It's the usual double standard!

For the NYT the Dems can do no wrong and the GOP is always wrong.


54 posted on 04/27/2005 8:22:15 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (Call the Senators FREE using 1-877-762-8762)
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To: Mo1; Impeach98

Thanks for the ping......this is a great find!


55 posted on 04/27/2005 8:23:18 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (Call the Senators FREE using 1-877-762-8762)
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To: JulieRNR21

thank you sooo much for pinging me to this, julie :o) i LOVE to see the leftist double standards documented!


56 posted on 04/27/2005 8:28:23 PM PDT by tame (Are you willing to do for the truth what leftists are willing to do for a lie?)
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57 posted on 04/27/2005 8:40:45 PM PDT by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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To: 68skylark
The filibuster has become the tool of the sore loser...


58 posted on 04/27/2005 9:06:06 PM PDT by MamaLucci (Mutually assured destruction STILL keeps the Clinton administration criminals out of jail.)
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To: ThirstyMan; JohnHuang2; ALOHA RONNIE; Chieftain; NautiNurse; 4integrity; anniegetyourgun; ...

Surprise.....NYT urged that the filibuster be 'retired' in 1995 when Harkin & Lieberman proposed that a simple majority could eventually end one.....ping


59 posted on 04/27/2005 9:10:04 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (Call the Senators FREE using 1-877-762-8762)
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To: OXENinFLA

Ping!


60 posted on 04/27/2005 9:15:29 PM PDT by Free State Four
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