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March 10, 2005
I Am Starting To Like My Senator Part 2
Sen. Jon Cornyn has a great letter to the New York Times today, pointing out how their editorial position on filibusters changes depending on which party controls the white house. He writes, ‘"The Senate on the Brink" (editorial, March 6) supports the "historic role of the filibuster," which is a curious position for a newspaper that 10 years ago said filibusters were "the tool of the sore loser" and should be eliminated ("Time to Retire the Filibuster," editorial, Jan. 1, 1995). Federal judicial appointments have certainly been controversial, but surely all Americans can agree that the rules for confirming judges should be the same regardless of which party has a majority. Now you praise the filibuster as a "time-honored Senate procedure." In 1995, when Bill Clinton was president, you called it "an archaic rule that frustrates democracy and serves no useful purpose.”’
This is the second time recently that Cornyn has come out strong by pointing out how today’s fair weather friends of filibusters were against them when they hurt Democrats. And Cornyn did not even have to compare the Times editors to Nazis.
Posted by Pete at March 10, 2005 02:26 PM
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