Thursday, January 11, 2007

McConnell Threatens Filibuster

Mitch McConnell is threatening to filibuster anti-escalation bills. Fascinating how quickly they switch their principled positions. When they were in the majority, the filibuster wsas an anti-democracy tool used by evil midgets. Now it has returned to a central part of Hill statecraft.

Bring it on, I say. Make Bush veto a bill that reflects the views of 70 percent of the country. If it's stopped by a filibuster, all the better. We'll see how many of the 21 senators McConnell can line up. And we'll be keeping track. via Raw Story


A top GOP senator said that he "will filibuster" any Democratic attempt to decrease funding for President Bush's new Iraq plan, the Associated Press reports.

"At a news conference, McConnell accused Democrats of secretly favoring a plan to cut off funding for the troops - an allegation that Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. denied," AP reports.

"The fundamental decision to stay on offence and to finish the job, I think is correct, and we believe the president is heading in the right direction and tend to support him," Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell said before Bush's speech last night.

McConnell also talked to some right-leaning bloggers earlier this morning to earn their support for his potential filibuster, telling them on a conference call with other journalists that he expects Independent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman to also join in with the Republicans.


And it's kinda funny that he's turning to the wingnut blogosphere as they continue their death spiral into irrelevance.

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