re: #181 jamesfirecat

Maybe so, but for the tables to be turned, our philosophical positions would have to be flipped as well.

Democrats believe government can do good and so they want to grow it, so they want the senate to be able to pass new laws.

Conservatives believe the government can’t do good and so they want to shrink it/keep it the same size so they don’t want the senate to be able to pass new laws.

That’s a cookie cutter simplified version of it, but how else do you explain why there are so many more filibusters by republicans than democrats?

“In the 2007-08 session of Congress, Republicans forced 112 cloture votes, nearly doubling the Democrats’ record when they were in the minority.”
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com…]

So yeah if I were someone who believed in small government I would smile when I saw that it now took 60 out of a 100 people agreeing on anything to get something done…

You just can’t accept the fact that your own party won, has all the power it needs and they still can’t get together on the same page, so you just have to find someone to blame your inabilities on… it’s getting old, Bush is way out of the picture, you have you OWN battle coming up in the with the House, you all better stop wasting your time trying to find all sorts of excuses and start acting like effective politicians that you keep claiming you are… times a wasting Ranger!