re: #233 Dark_Falcon

No, by tacking on amendments and then refusing to allow any from the other party to be even offered.

What amendments were tacked on? And why doesn’t the GOP simply vote against the bills, so amended, if they object to them?

Brown Snowe and Collins would be simply conceding to Reid if they voted for cloture.

They would be allowing a bill to be voted on in the Senate. That is what they would be doing. They could vote against it. It might pass. It probably would. And that happens; that is supposed to happen. Bills that not everyone is in favor of are supposed to be able to be voted on.

The DREAM part of the bill is strongly Republican, so I really don’t get how Republicans have bee frozen out of the process.