Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Democrats charged onto Capitol Hill a year ago ready to change the world, or at least America, only to run into President Bush's veto pen and the Republican filibuster machine in the Senate. After humiliating legislative losses (particularly on Iraq) and approval ratings that make Bush look like the...
On Nov. 26, former Majority Leader Trent Lott became the seventh Republican to announce plans to depart the Senate. The move has fanned Democratic hopes of a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in that chamber and GOP fears that the party is in a downward spiral.
This game of chicken occurs even though Congress has already sent the military $460 billion for its operations in fiscal 2008, which began October 1. But funding for actual war-fighting is generally not included as part of the standard military budget. Instead, it comes from Congress in the form...
That sort of clarity has been rare in the presidential campaign and almost totally nonexistent among the Democrats in Congress, who are being foolishly partisan on two key issues: continued funding for the war in Iraq and updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The Iraq-funding issue is particularly...
Republicans, for their part, are unified in their opposition to any tax hikes - even threatening a filibuster if the Dems were to bring up the House bill. "The last thing the American people need right now is a massive tax increase which would be a dangerous jolt to our economy...