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December 15, 2006
On Protecting Senate Minority, Reid Shows Honor GOP Lacked
Time and again the Republicans have shown themselves to be a party embodying the worst aspects of our political nature as Americans. There is no greater example than the attempt by the GOP to get radical extremist judges on the bench by destroying the power of the minority to filibuster unacceptable judges that represent a fundamental threat to the fabric of the United States.
In one of his first acts as the Majority leader in Congress, Reid basically drives a stake into the heart of the Nuclear Option, or the tyranny of the majority if you look at it's actual nature. The Democratic majority will not attempt to railroad legislation through the Senate like the Republican majority did.
This is an issue of class really. The Republican party is filled with bullies and thugs, so from their point of view that's how things should be run, but the founding fathers saw things differently than they did. The Senate was supposed to act as the saucer to a tea cup, allowing legislation to be held up by a minority to make sure that what was best for America came to the President's desk to be signed. That's why Senators have longer terms, because they are supposed to be less partisan and less impulsive. But the Republican party has gone about destroying that tradition and those safeguards for the American people. And I have to say I think even the American people who do not waste their time in the minutia of the processes of the Senate could feel that what the Republican party was doing was bad for America and putting our way of life in serious jeopardy.
So next year when you see the America hating GOP filibustering everything from raising the minimum wage to actually funding education for our children, remember this was all apart of the grand design to protect America from tyrants. We lost our way as a country for a short moment, but now we will find our way back to our historic greatness, likely over the objections of a hate filled GOP.
Read more over at Bob Geiger.
Posted by Jamison at December 15, 2006 7:49 AM
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