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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-27-06 11:11 AM
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8. If you trust the Republican senators
You'll believe their claim that the cheezy-assed, abomination of a rules change they'd be ramming through would ONLY pertain to filibustering judicial appointments.

Thing is, once you've eliminated filibustering for one purpose, based on a simple majority vote, there is NOTHING to stop the Senate from applying this rule to other types of filibusters. Game's over, and the Senate knows it.

Hence the term "nuclear option."
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