re: #303 Jaerik

Ah, good catch. Still though, gotta point out there aren’t technically 60 Dems in the Senate, as a lot of folks think.

I’m actually surprised that Lieberman still caucuses with them. He hasn’t seemed to vote with them in quite awhile.

Shame nobody wanted to take me up on my filibuster question. =/

Ask me next week about the filibuster question and I’ll have something more informed to say about it. :) Haven’t had time to get into it yet.

BTW, my personal favourite obstructionist tactic by the GOP: pretending to forget their voting cards:

In September, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) had noticed Republicans House lawmakers intentionally forgetting or losing their voting cards in order to delay votes. Starting late in the summer, Grayson said he saw 60-70 GOP congressmen engaging in this tactic:

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Yesterday at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) delivered an address on unprecedented minority obstruction of reform. ThinkProgress spoke to him afterwards, and the Majority Leader confirmed that even the House parliamentarian had criticized Republicans for this very tactic. Hoyer admonished what he called “such a transparent effort at solely delay”

The GOP has moved beyond simply being the Party of No, and turned into the party of toddlers who scream “NoNoNO” and hold their breath over, well, everything.