It is really sad that the Republicans have no concept of "taking care of the Peoples Business." Stealing is so ingrained in them that now, the only solution, the only protection for the American people is to vote them ALL out of office....Happy hunting you all....John Boy.....

I seem to remember how the repubs screamed when the dems threatened a filibuster, yet it is OK for them. How sick is that! We are unpatriotic if we filibuster they are patriots!

We seem to let them call the tune and for me it seems just way out of tune with what the people really want but the repubs still hang on to the neo-con base ideas that have put us in the mess we are in today!

The Repugs are corrupt, and need to be thrown out. Next election we will have our 60 seats in the Senate. Nationize Oil Companys Now!!

madfuq -

Your memory is almost correct. What happened in the debate over the USSC nominations is that the Dems threatened a filibuster, and then Sen. First threatened to use the "nucular" option by eliminating the cloture rules requiring 60 votes to close debate.

THEN..seven chickenshit Democratic Senators joined up with seven Republican Senators to create the "Gang of 14." Their agreement, which pertained only to the 109th Congress, stipulated that the seven chickenshit Democrats would no longer vote along with their party on filibustering judicial nominees (except in "extraordinary circumstances"). The Republican seven would break with Bill Frist and the Republican leadership on voting for the "nuclear option."

In other words, the Democrats agreed not to filibuster in order to preserve their right not to filibuster. Sort of like your 14 year old daughter agreeing to have sex with her boyfriend in order to preserve her virginity.

That was when we were in the minority and they were in the majority.

Now that they're in the minority they're prepared to filibuster anything, no doubt including color choices for the fabric used in the Senate Chambers curtains, and what do we hear from the Democratic majority leaders? Nothing but sniffles, and whining like the post that started this thread.

The elected leadership of this party is pathetic.

The one thing I have repeatedly seen in regards to the Republican voters and representatives is their mental ossification. They're like Frankensteins, unresponsive to the peoples' desires; swift to corporate desires.

The laws that favor corporations over the public are diobolical. To hell with you and your family,
Walmart, big oil, weapons manufactures, etc. are more important.

Small business? why Republican representatives have no stock in small business, so screw you.

They have never changed and never will. They are the sticks up their ass bunch.

Yes, I whole heartedly agree that they must be thrown out of office. America needs to clean house and be vigilant of their ELECTED representatives, not stay the vegetables Americans are today, continuiously voting the same representatives- Democrat or Republican- back into office. If you are too distracted to pay attention to our country's issues, then leave, go to Mexico and see what happens when the people lay down.

America, don't react as we always, always do. Be proactive. Can't you hear the freight train coming?

Futhermore, vote Kennedy out! He's softed headed when it comes to our borders. He's no Robert or John.

Madfuq is on to something. The Dems have been spinning their wheels since Jan. and nothing is happening.
No confidence voting is fucking the dog when WE have problems in this spineless nation.
So damn scared that someone won't like your position and all the while tolerating their position. "Well if I say or do anything to the contrary, they won't like me anymore."

Get a backbone America!

Vote all the bastards out that stand in the way of good common scense.

Bring manufacturing jobs home. Lets make other things besides bombs and trouble.

Secure our borders-vote Kennedy out. He's a soft headed dinosaur. He's no John or Robert. By the way, immigration was a problem that the representatives refused to do anything about when JFK was President. They figured it would resolve itself back then too.

Reduce the massive benefits that Federal employees enjoy that we the employers can only dream about.

Inshort, overhaul America before we break down in the middle of nowhere.

Ah, yes. The Gang of 14 headed up by that Independent Republican Joe Lieberman (it was so obvious to those who bothered to observe just what Ole Joe was up to).

If our leadership had gotten the gumption to filibuster over Alito, the closure issue would have been passe today and we could be cruising past the Republicans now that we are in charge of the Senate.

Learn from your mistakes...and get a backbone. That's what our grandparents always said.

These so called moderates who seem on the surface to be for sanity seem to open the whole process to total insanity!And most of all SandyH is right about Joe Lieberman!He`s long overdue for an exit from American politics.He`s really nothing more than a pimple on the butt of the Democratic Party. At least the repubs declare themselves as such!Susan Collins in Maine is right there with him even though she`s a repub.You can always tell when she`s up for relection by the way she votes.

SandyH -

I have a wager I'd like to propose to you.

If (and after the Dem leadership capitulation on the Iraqi funding bill, this is now a big "if") the Dems pick up another seat or more in the Senate in 08, and would therefore not need Bush-buddy Joe Lieberman in their caucus to maintain majority status, do you think they would tell Lieberman to caucus with his own kind?

I bet they would not.

Lieberman should have never been allowed to be in the Democratic caucus.
He was fired by his Democratic contituents, and funded by the Republicans and K-street in his (non) independent run.
The only reason he's still in the caucus is because the other Republi-lites kept him in.
Is it going to be like this when we fire the other Republi-lites too?
I hope the hell not, though I could see Max Bacchus trying it this go-around.

Butte -

I'm usually the first to criticize the elected leadership of the Democratic party, and never the last, but...Lieberman is in the Democratic caucus because without him the Republicans would have been naming committee chairs for the current session; the Dems would have been officially the minority party. Unfortunately, this reality gave the repugnant puke Lieberman even more power than he had before.