DSK wrote:
wrote:
How else is representative government supposed to operate if majority
doesn't rule?
How about by not trampling on the minority... especially a minority that
can summon a majority on many of the more right-wing proposals?
How is insisting on a vote trampling on the minority?
.... Repubs have the majority of the votes in the Senate,
House, and the White House.
Yes, but the far right does not have a majority, even within the
Republican Party. That's why the 'nuclear option' and arm-twisting...
why do several Republican Senators say that they've been 'beat up' by
the Bush cabinet?
What does that have to do with getting them to "just vote dammit"?
... What else do they need to get a few judges
approved?
Pick judges that aren't fascist whackoes.
In your opinion only. But it's not your job or priviledge to decide if
they are fascist. At this point it is the Senate's job and a minority
of Senators are holding up the process. The minority should not have
the power to shut down the system if they don't like what's going on.
The minority never does like what's going on, that's why they are the
minority. The dems only have to convince a few measly Senators that
these appointees are "fascist". If they can't do it, then what rights
should they have to block them from taking the bench?
Did it amount to 'mob rule' in your book back in the early 1990s when
Newt Gengrich led the Republican minority in the exact same kind of tactics?
I already said ,"I would be just as mad if the repubs pulled this
crap", but you snipped it. I was too young at the time to care about
Newt, but yes it was dirty politics. Did you have a point?