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January 18, 2007
The GOP's first filibuster stops ethics reform
No big surprise here, because a tiger doesn't change his stripes! The GOP is corrupt to it's dishonest to the core. The American people just need another election cycle of voting to clean things up in Washington. There are 21 of the Bush drones up for reelection in the Senate America amd if you want honesty to return to government they have got to go! I mean the notion that the Democrats would suggest that Republicans shouldn't allow themselves to be lavished by lobbyists who are effectively buying their votes on any number of matters is sacrilege really. The culture of corruption is alive in Washington and the GOP even in the minority will not change their ways. The only way we are going to break the back of this kind of corruption is going to be the establishment of a Democratic Super Majority in the Senate. It will mean the collection of 12 additional seats. The extra seats are for DLC traitors like Lieberman, who would likely sell out the party on something like this given a chance to serve their corporate masters.
[via America Blog]
Read more over at The Washington Post.
Posted by Jamison at January 18, 2007 3:36 PM
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Sorry, but the real dishonesty is the fact that Harry Reid an other Democratic Senators oppose true ethics reforms. Thank goodness some in the Republican minority (but not enough) actually want to push through reforms.
Posted by: Jason Black at January 18, 2007 10:09 PM
Right it was the Democrats leading the filibuster against ethics reforms. Oh wait the congressional record says otherwise. You Republicans will lie about anything! Black is blue, red is yellow. War is peace. No lie is too big is it? On one level nothing surprises me about you apologists anymore, on another I wonder how you get to point that you can do something like disbelieve the reality everyone else in the world can see with prefect clarity.
Posted by: Jamison at January 19, 2007 9:24 AM
The Republican filibuster was to add additional measures to prevent earmarks. Something opposed by Sens. Reid and Byrd because of their belief that Government should be all things to all people.
The fact of the matters is that Democrats oppose ethics reforms because it makes it harder for them to line their pockets. The only "reforms" the support, ironically, are ones that limit freedom of speech such as their ideas to regulate bloggers and to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine.
Posted by: Jason Black at January 19, 2007 10:49 AM
The addition of line item veto has already been rule unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and worse than that it had nothing to do with Ethics. Two completely unrelated topics, just a desperate ploy by Republicans to keep Ethics reform from making it through so they can continue their culture of corruption unabated.
Posted by: Jamison at January 19, 2007 11:07 AM