NO DEAL ON FILIBUSTER. NO DEAL!
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Making a deal on the filibuster is like making a deal on abortion. It can’t happen.
Either one aborts the baby or one does not abort the baby. There is no half baby in the situation. It’s the baby stays alive all the way or the baby is murdered all the way. That’s what abortion is all about — killing a total infant — snuffing out a total existence, not a part of an existence.
When it comes to the filibuster, it’s that Congresspersons get to talk indefinitely about a matter or they don’t get to talk indefinitely about a matter. There’s no half-way here. It’s allowing the yakathon or not allowing the yakathon.
Yet there is talk today about the Republicans and Democrats carving out "a deal."
A deal? There cannot be logically a deal worked out on the filibuster. Again, there is no halfway here. It’s either the cultural lag waste of time, childishly yakking away for as long as mouths press to move or it’s working civilly within the Congress to do the people’s business.
On with doing the people’s business. Congresspersons were not elected by intelligent persons so that Congresspersons could waste time and energy and money by destroying civil dialogue for day care center exercises of moving the lips with no other intent but to obstruct.
No deal. No deal on the filibuster. No deal.
And any Republicans, such as my own Maine state Senators, who clamor for a deal or float conveniently to the Democrat’s side, are not worthy of being Republicans. Of course, I am daily embarrassed by Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe being my "Republican" persons in the US Congress. But there’s not much I can do about it except cast my one vote because Maine is as liberal as sin.
But for any Republicans to cave in to the Democrats’ hoot and cry about unfair this and that just because they don’t get their spoiled way when they want is mutiny. Collins and Snowe are set as prime examples of that kind of Judas betrayal constant.
No deal. No deal on the filibuster. No deal.
Fox News reporters Julie Asher, Wendell Goler, Molly Hooper and Liza Porteus and The Associated Press give the following at present: "Senators are still negotiating that part of the deal and it is subject to change, aides said.
"Under the latest Republican-crafted proposal, both sides would have to operate on ‘good faith.’ Republicans would be bound not to ban judicial filibusters only if Democrats forswear judicial filibusters except for extraordinary situations, aides said.
"But that plan doesn't sit well for some.
"’I don't like that plan at all because I think that's where we're deciding who's going to get a vote and who's not,’ Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told FOX News Thursday morning. ‘I believe all of these nominees — they've been vetted, they've come out of committee, they're extremely qualified and we ought to vote them up-or-down.’"
Of course Shelby is correct. How can there be a deal in "good faith" when once again Democrats and Republicans will be butting heads in order to define what "good faith" means when it comes to "’deciding who’s going to get a vote and who’s not.’"
And what will "extraordinary situations" mean? What??
Pray tell how can the Congresspersons play God at just that point? They can’t and they won’t. So we’re back to square one.
This is all getting pretty silly at best and horrific at worst. On with the show, Republicans. Band together and douse the filibuster once and for all. Get to the people’s business and get to it now.
Making a deal on the filibuster is like making a deal on abortion. It can’t happen.
Either one aborts the baby or one does not abort the baby. There is no half baby in the situation. It’s the baby stays alive all the way or the baby is murdered all the way. That’s what abortion is all about — killing a total infant — snuffing out a total existence, not a part of an existence.
When it comes to the filibuster, it’s that Congresspersons get to talk indefinitely about a matter or they don’t get to talk indefinitely about a matter. There’s no half-way here. It’s allowing the yakathon or not allowing the yakathon.
Yet there is talk today about the Republicans and Democrats carving out "a deal."
A deal? There cannot be logically a deal worked out on the filibuster. Again, there is no halfway here. It’s either the cultural lag waste of time, childishly yakking away for as long as mouths press to move or it’s working civilly within the Congress to do the people’s business.
On with doing the people’s business. Congresspersons were not elected by intelligent persons so that Congresspersons could waste time and energy and money by destroying civil dialogue for day care center exercises of moving the lips with no other intent but to obstruct.
No deal. No deal on the filibuster. No deal.
And any Republicans, such as my own Maine state Senators, who clamor for a deal or float conveniently to the Democrat’s side, are not worthy of being Republicans. Of course, I am daily embarrassed by Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe being my "Republican" persons in the US Congress. But there’s not much I can do about it except cast my one vote because Maine is as liberal as sin.
But for any Republicans to cave in to the Democrats’ hoot and cry about unfair this and that just because they don’t get their spoiled way when they want is mutiny. Collins and Snowe are set as prime examples of that kind of Judas betrayal constant.
No deal. No deal on the filibuster. No deal.
Fox News reporters Julie Asher, Wendell Goler, Molly Hooper and Liza Porteus and The Associated Press give the following at present: "Senators are still negotiating that part of the deal and it is subject to change, aides said.
"Under the latest Republican-crafted proposal, both sides would have to operate on ‘good faith.’ Republicans would be bound not to ban judicial filibusters only if Democrats forswear judicial filibusters except for extraordinary situations, aides said.
"But that plan doesn't sit well for some.
"’I don't like that plan at all because I think that's where we're deciding who's going to get a vote and who's not,’ Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told FOX News Thursday morning. ‘I believe all of these nominees — they've been vetted, they've come out of committee, they're extremely qualified and we ought to vote them up-or-down.’"
Of course Shelby is correct. How can there be a deal in "good faith" when once again Democrats and Republicans will be butting heads in order to define what "good faith" means when it comes to "’deciding who’s going to get a vote and who’s not.’"
And what will "extraordinary situations" mean? What??
Pray tell how can the Congresspersons play God at just that point? They can’t and they won’t. So we’re back to square one.
This is all getting pretty silly at best and horrific at worst. On with the show, Republicans. Band together and douse the filibuster once and for all. Get to the people’s business and get to it now.
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