Now the nuclear option part of it is interesting. The phase was coined by Trent Lott, used by Bill Frist, but recently the republicans have tried to move away from that phase and accuse Democrats of calling it the nuclear option.
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Gudanov - May 18, 2005 10:14:23 am PDT #5303 of 10001
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Topic!Cindy - May 18, 2005 10:15:07 am PDT #5304 of 10001
What is even happening?
Opportunity lost. I should have said the Republicans were being as dirty as a dirty bomb.
Calli - May 18, 2005 10:16:13 am PDT #5305 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
recently the republicans have tried to move away from that phase and accuse Democrats of calling it the nuclear option.
This is the party that back-dated the 2001 stock market drop by a couple of years, so I'm not terribly suprised.
tommyrot - May 18, 2005 10:19:00 am PDT #5306 of 10001
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Yeah. And the party that denied that they ever said that Iraq was an immediate threat.
-t - May 18, 2005 10:26:30 am PDT #5307 of 10001
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There's a passport season?
Gudanov - May 18, 2005 10:31:40 am PDT #5308 of 10001
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Yeah. And the party that denied that they ever said that Iraq was an immediate threat.
Don't you remember Colin Powell's speech at the U.N. about how we needed to bring democracy and freedom to Iraq?
TomW - May 18, 2005 10:41:44 am PDT #5309 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
The "nuclear option" also refers to the *way* in which the republicans are planning to remove the filibuster. Instead of putting it forward as a rule change, which would require a 2/3rds majority, they'll get Cheney to declare the filibuster unconstitutional and then "uphold" his ruling, which only requires 51 votes.
Calli - May 18, 2005 10:45:40 am PDT #5310 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
they'll get Cheney to declare the filibuster unconstitutional
I think we should require proof that Cheney's actually read the Constitution before he can do this. There could be a quiz and everything.
Seriously, though, doesn't the Supreme Court have the final say on whether something's unconstitutional?
Kathy A - May 18, 2005 10:49:35 am PDT #5311 of 10001
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Nora Deirdre - May 18, 2005 10:51:25 am PDT #5312 of 10001
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