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  • Democrats Nuke Party Beliefs To Stop Women - (glaring policy contradictions in obstruct tactics)

    05/19/2005 9:22:53 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 13 replies · 830+ views
    Opinion Journal.com ^ | May 20, 2005 | Daniel Henninger
    Surveying the Senate's nuclear-missile silos, Court TV's Fred Graham said that of course the Republican majority had the power to change the filibuster rule, and the Democrats would have to lump it: "What are they going to do," he asked, "appeal to the Supreme Court?" They didn't much enjoy their last visit to the high court after the 2000 election. But the nightmare lingers on. The death-struggle in the Senate over the Bush judges is best understood as a re-fighting of the post-2000 Florida election challenge. Democratic logic, premised on the famous 5-4 Bush v. Gore decision, runs like this:...