Mitch McConnell stands in the way of a vote in the House for Washington, D.C., residents.

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from OurFuture.org:



A Basic Right Filibustered
Submitted by Isaiah J. Poole on September 19, 2007 - 8:22am.


Once again, a minority of Senate Republicans led by Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell blocked the ability of a bipartisan majority to move a piece a legislation, this time a bill that would allow the District’s representative in the House to have a full vote on the House floor. McConnell led a filibuster of the legislation, and a cloture vote on Tuesday to end the filibuster fell three votes short of the needed 60.

It is obstruction at its most contemptible. Never mind the protestations by McConnell and the 40 other Republicans (and one member who calls himself a Democrat, Montana’s Max Baucus) about what McConnell calls the Senate’s “duty to defend the Constitution.” This was, in fact, another episode in the temper tantrum being thrown at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue by people who still do not accept the results of the 2006 election. President Bush had vowed to veto the legislation, but thanks to McConnell, he won’t have the opportunity.

Among the senators who voted to block the bill were Republicans Thad Cochran of Mississippi, John McCain of Arizona and Gordon Smith of Oregon, who were reportedly prepared to break the filibuster but caved in to pressure from McConnell and other Senate leaders.

Keep in mind that this is the same Mitch McConnell who complained, when the Democrats were in the minority, about Democrats obstructing the will of the majority – even though Democrats were downright parsimonious in forcing cloture votes when compared to the Republicans. In the last two years of Republican control, there were 54 cloture votes, or attempts to break a filibuster, in the Senate. In the first nine months of Democratic control of the Senate, there have been 43, nearly all either led by or encouraged by McConnell.

It is just one of the things that makes McConnell’s sanctimonious Constitution-hugging so sickening, his taking the principle of majority rule with minority rights and turning it on its head, insisting that his band of angry right-wingers be the sole deciders of what does and does not move through Congress. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/basic_right_filibustered?tx=3

[asjr]

1. D.C. citizens will have to throw

a Potomac Tea Party. Worked pretty well for Bostonians years ago.

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2. What happened to the news about

Mitch McConnell be cashiered out of the service for feeling a private's privates. He wrote a blog about it, he said it was in the military records. But no body no where picked up on it. Was it true, or was it just a ploy by this writer Rogers.

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3. I seriously doubt that Kentucky will allow Mitch to return to the

after the next election. Big campaign on to "Ditch Mitch"