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jebbypalOkay..Okay..I know you guys are sick to death of me spamming your flists late at night w/ politics, but I have to put this in:
"I think it would be a mistake to eliminate all the rules of the Senate dealing with the filibuster...There's real wisdom in the fact that the Senate is a more deliberate body, that- not all legislation that we pass is good, and sometimes it makes good sense for us to look at it, and so, no, I wouldn't favor reducing the 60-vote margin to, basically, eliminate cloture or eliminate filibuster."
- Sen. Don Nickles, CNN, 1/5/95
Sorry, given the current crazies that my former home state managed to elect this past november, I felt the need to point out that I'm not the only intelligent product of OK and that in the past, my former home state did indeed manage to vote for politicians with a bit of common sense. (Granted, Nickles was always the crazy fanatical senator and Boren was our staid, calm moderate, but hye, sometimes people mature w/ age. Frist, look at this!!).
"I think it would be a mistake to eliminate all the rules of the Senate dealing with the filibuster...There's real wisdom in the fact that the Senate is a more deliberate body, that- not all legislation that we pass is good, and sometimes it makes good sense for us to look at it, and so, no, I wouldn't favor reducing the 60-vote margin to, basically, eliminate cloture or eliminate filibuster."
- Sen. Don Nickles, CNN, 1/5/95
Sorry, given the current crazies that my former home state managed to elect this past november, I felt the need to point out that I'm not the only intelligent product of OK and that in the past, my former home state did indeed manage to vote for politicians with a bit of common sense. (Granted, Nickles was always the crazy fanatical senator and Boren was our staid, calm moderate, but hye, sometimes people mature w/ age. Frist, look at this!!).