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Thursday, March 2, 2006

Will the Real Patriots Please Stand Up?

Posted by on March 2 at 10:15 AM

Sens. Murray and Cantwell joined 13 other Democrats with their votes to keep filibustering the PATRIOT Act yesterday.

However, with 55 Republicans and 29 Democrats (including Hillary C., Edward Kennedy, Harry Reid, Dianne Fienstein, and Evan Bayh) voting to move ahead, the pro-filibuster crowd (which also included lead PATRIOT Act opponent Russ Feingold) was nowhere near the 41 votes needed to continue standing up to Bush.


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Cantwell saves her fillibusters for when they're most needed.

Too bad Maria would not fillibuster to stop the Alieto vote...

Preventing enactment of a statute is more important than preventing a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court?

Although I suppose the comparison is irrelevant since neither filibuster succeeded. I suspect the Democratic senators are playing a game where they ensure every one of their oppositional tactics fails, but they each get their turn to cast a meaningless vote to appease the base.

Or they're just a herd of cats... who can say for sure?

sarcasm.

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