Thursday, March 31, 2005
Filibuster Foul
Radioblogger posts on speech rolling out People For The American Way's new spot concerning the so-called "nuclear option" (ending the filibuster for judicial nominees.) He quotes the ad:
...party controls the White House and the Congress. But I also know that our democracy works best when both parties are speaking out and being heard. Mr. Smith knew it, too. That's why he was using the filibuster. So that the other point of view could be heard. The filibuster has been around 200 years, and God knows our party used it whenever we needed it. But we're a two party system. And America works best when no one party has absolute power.This sounds like an argument for ending the filibuster to me. Given fact that the judiciary completely ignored the other two branches of government last week, they're the ones with absolute power.
