{"id":3069,"date":"2010-10-10T02:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T09:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2010-10-10T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T09:03:30","slug":"the-latest-republican-lie-about-filibusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/10\/the-latest-republican-lie-about-filibusters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Republican Lie About Filibusters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican politicians are very well organized.  That makes it useful to track them, because they only lie on days that begin with a T, and tell the truth on the other days.  So remember this.  If it\u2019s Tuesday, what Republicans say are lies.  If it\u2019s Thursday, what Republicans say are lies.  If it\u2019s Taturday, what Republicans say are lies.  If it\u2019s Tunday, what Republicans say are lies.  If it\u2019s Today, what Republicans say are lies.  This one from Susan Collins is a beauty.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"10collins_susan\"<\/a> Sen. Susan Collins (R\u2013Maine) writes that the Senate has become increasingly nasty and partisan. <\/span>For example:<\/a><\/p>\n

During the past two years, the minority party has been increasingly shut out of the discussion. Even in the Senate, which used to pride itself on being a bastion of free and open debate, procedural tactics are routinely used toprevent [sic] Republican amendments<\/strong>. That causes Republicans to overuse the filibuster, because our only option is to stop a bill to which we cannot offer amendments.<\/p>\n

It’s true that Harry Reid has filled the amendment tree a little more often than his predecessors: nine times in the 110th Congress vs. six times for Bill Frist in the 109th. And while I can’t find a tally for the 111th Congress, I wouldn’t be surprised if it were higher still. But is Collins seriously trying to suggest that this is the direction that causality runs? That Republicans are only resorting to filibusters and other delaying tactics becasue [sic] they haven’t been allowed to offer serious, substantive amendments more regularly?… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Mother Jones<\/a>><\/p>\n

Horse feathers!!  I regularly have CSPAN2 on and listen to it in the background while using my computer.  More times than I care to remember, I have heard Republicans assault non-controversial legislation for days with dozens of absurd amendments, just to slow down the process, and in the end, filibustered the bill anyway.  I don\u2019t know the current total, but as of February 23, Senate Republicans had blocked 230 bills that the House had passed.  In my opinion, Leg Hound Harry should have filled the tree even more often than he did, just to speed up the process.  What\u2019s the point of spending days listening to Republicans spew lies if they\u2019re going to block the bill anyway?<\/font><\/p>\n

Republicans govern exclusively for the benefit of<\/strong><\/font><\/h6>\n
criminal <\/font>corporations and the richest 1%.<\/font><\/strong><\/h6>\n
They will NOT represent YOU!<\/strong><\/font><\/h6>\n

VOTE!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican politicians are very well organized.  That makes it useful to track them, because they only lie on days that begin with a T, and tell the truth on the other days.  So remember this.  If it\u2019s Tuesday, what Republicans say are lies.  If it\u2019s Thursday, what Republicans say are lies.  If it\u2019s Taturday, what […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}