Word: filibusterer
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This reduction of ideas to platitudes, this perpetual emotional filibuster relying on psychic sensationalism and insights as adaptable and obvious as children's blocks that are numbered and lettered, is depicted, on the whole, with wryness. The warning lies beneath the mockery.
When Maine's Ed Muskie eventually got the floor, he accused the Vice President of arbitrarily creating "a new order of things, a change in the rules." Colorado Democrat Gary Hart charged that "the U.S. Senate has seen an outrageous act.'' Swiftly, the senatorial anger zeroed in...
With that, Byrd backed off. He promised to call up no more amendments for Mondale to knock down. In theory, the filibuster was still alive. But Abourezk and Metzenbaum, convinced that Carter had sold them out and had sent Mondale in to break up the talkathon, had lost heart.
After the emotion-fraught session that broke the filibuster, the rest of the week's actions in the Senate seemed anticlimactic. But they were far from that. For one thing, Byrd and Baker quickly appointed informal committees to propose changes in Rule 22, now shot through with procedural holes...
But the current was clearly in favor of the producers. The pro-Administration forces, including labor lobbyists, Naderites and other consumer groups, were loosely allied, often unorganized and, ultimately, no match for the pro-gas juggernaut. Even if the gas interests do not win complete deregulation in the end, they...