Word: filibusterer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While Beltway types often dismiss Byrd as a fossil, his anachronistic style is bracing, especially at a time when the Republican-led Senate is considering revamping the filibuster rules to smooth the path of Bush's judicial nominees. Like anyone who has seen Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to...
One reason politicians seem so dorky is that other than the filibuster, there aren't any cool parliamentary procedures. But the ultimate move--the one that's making Aaron Sorkin even more upset that he won't be writing The West Wing next season--is to halt a vote by...
In reality, though, the filibuster is akin to a weapon of mass destruction; it's not something to be used often. That's why most of Bush's picks, controversial or not, have been getting through, and the number of nominees confirmed is about the same as in the first...
Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray, who heads a group that's run ads supporting Bush?s nominees (with fundraising help from Bush's father), complains that the Democrats have taken obstructionism to new lows. "If 51 senators want to vote down an Estrada or Sutton or whoever, they...
Democrats, for their part, say the filibuster is practically the only weapon they have left in the face of what they assert is a brazen attempt to stuff the nation's federal courts with highly ideological lawyers. Since most cases, while precedent-setting, never make it to the Supreme Court...