Word: filibusterer
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We know what California Democrat BARBARA BOXER will do during the Senate's next filibuster--write her novel, an untitled yarn of politics and romance due next fall from Chronicle Books. Boxer joins a bipartisan band of politicians getting paid for telling tales.
It is one of the more delightful consequences of the recent election that Democrats-now caricatured as the party of elite secularists-find themselves led in the Senate by a pro-life, pro-gun, pro-war, red-state convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But...
Nickles: I would think so and hope so. If you're talking about rewriting the tax code or reforming Social Security, it's going to take bipartisan action. Unfortunately, in the past couple years, the Senate has moved toward this idea that we have to have 60 votes [the number...
Furthermore, the loss of the Democratic filibuster would make the Democratic Party, and our two party system, nearly irrelevant. The Democrats would have no political clout—the Republicans could call all the shots themselves and the Democrats would be mere pundits criticizing Republican policy with the hope that...
Unfortunately for the Democrats, and for our political system, their “filibuster minority” is far from safe—2006 could be a blockbuster year for the Republicans. Thirty-three seats are up for reelection, and a large fraction of the seats that will likely be...