Filibuster Tutorial
For those that have been forced to read the completely ignorant "news" accounts regarding the impending U.S. Senate vote to confirm Judge Samuel Alito as the next Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, let me explain the "filibuster".
Filibuster does not mean that if liberal extremists decide to mount one against the nomination of Judge Alito that he will not become the next Associate Justice.
A filibuster is nothing more than unlimited debate in the U.S. Senate. That is, as long as Senators are "debating (reading cooking recipes, reading the rules of golf, reading the names of the 2,880 Americans killed by terrorists on September 11, 2001, etc.)" then a vote cannot take place. The filibuster is nothing more than a political tool. When the political costs exceed the benefit, the filibuster will stop. If the benefits accrue, then the filibuster will continue. My goodness, it's so simple. I suspect with the 44 liberal extremists in the U.S. Senate that it is very easy for "debate" to continue for months. I say, fine. Let the extremists talk, and talk, and talk, to keep a Judge off the U.S. Supreme Court that 72% of all Americans think should be on the Court. Trust me, the extremists will not filibuster Judge Alito because they know it is a losing political move. The extremists will posture to their radical base, but they will not filibuster.
If I were advising the Republicans in the United States Senate, I'd tell them to let the extremists have their filibuster if they so elect. The evening news would be nightly clips of angry extremists talking but no work getting done in the Senate. That, my Republican friends, is a prescription for 70 Republican Senators. My goodness, I couldn't conceive of a more perfect plan for double digit Republican gains in the Senate than for the extremists to mount a filibuster of a popular Judge. One more time for emphasis, a filibuster is a political move.
Anyway, after all the posturing, the vote for Judge Alito out of committee will be 10 - 8. Duh! No brilliant insight on my part here. The vote to confirm will be about 60 - 40. All 55 Republicans plus about 5 extremists that understand the political need to vote "yea".
Tomorrow or Wednesday a post on the impeachment process, another political exercise that has absolutely nothing to do with jail time. My goodness, the idiots that don't understand this!
For those that have been forced to read the completely ignorant "news" accounts regarding the impending U.S. Senate vote to confirm Judge Samuel Alito as the next Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, let me explain the "filibuster".
Filibuster does not mean that if liberal extremists decide to mount one against the nomination of Judge Alito that he will not become the next Associate Justice.
A filibuster is nothing more than unlimited debate in the U.S. Senate. That is, as long as Senators are "debating (reading cooking recipes, reading the rules of golf, reading the names of the 2,880 Americans killed by terrorists on September 11, 2001, etc.)" then a vote cannot take place. The filibuster is nothing more than a political tool. When the political costs exceed the benefit, the filibuster will stop. If the benefits accrue, then the filibuster will continue. My goodness, it's so simple. I suspect with the 44 liberal extremists in the U.S. Senate that it is very easy for "debate" to continue for months. I say, fine. Let the extremists talk, and talk, and talk, to keep a Judge off the U.S. Supreme Court that 72% of all Americans think should be on the Court. Trust me, the extremists will not filibuster Judge Alito because they know it is a losing political move. The extremists will posture to their radical base, but they will not filibuster.
If I were advising the Republicans in the United States Senate, I'd tell them to let the extremists have their filibuster if they so elect. The evening news would be nightly clips of angry extremists talking but no work getting done in the Senate. That, my Republican friends, is a prescription for 70 Republican Senators. My goodness, I couldn't conceive of a more perfect plan for double digit Republican gains in the Senate than for the extremists to mount a filibuster of a popular Judge. One more time for emphasis, a filibuster is a political move.
Anyway, after all the posturing, the vote for Judge Alito out of committee will be 10 - 8. Duh! No brilliant insight on my part here. The vote to confirm will be about 60 - 40. All 55 Republicans plus about 5 extremists that understand the political need to vote "yea".
Tomorrow or Wednesday a post on the impeachment process, another political exercise that has absolutely nothing to do with jail time. My goodness, the idiots that don't understand this!
posted by Zack at 5:46 PM
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Four days between posts is too much. Today's post is zacklyright!
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