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Andrew Guyton

Saint Paul, MN
Commenter for
3 years 32 weeks

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Posted on 03/17/10 at 12:23 pm in response to John Kline: For the 'Slaughter Solution' before he was against it

The issue here is that congressional Republicans are having it both ways. Decrying the majority's use of arcane parliamentary techniques as "breaking the rules" and subversion of democracy is one thing (especially if your party was said techniques' largest user in years and decades past), but you can't point fingers at the Democrats for using them when you're the ones stopping them from going the more traditional route! If they want to give congressional Democrats the chance to drop...

Posted on 02/25/10 at 10:05 am in response to Bipartisan supermajority hypocrisy

The difference between 2005 and today is that the 2005 issue revolved around whether or not the Republicans should/would blow up the filibuster. Not reconciliation. The trick here is that both possibilities have been labeled as the "nuclear option" by the minority parties at their respective times. Republicans are now calling reconciliation the "nuclear option", when, as you so clearly pointed out, they used it often to advance their own agenda when they were in power.

But if you...

Posted on 11/06/09 at 01:12 pm in response to Sneak peek at Jesse Ventura's 'Conspiracy Theory' show

It's peek. Peek. Sneak peek. One of the many inscrutable inconsistencies inherent in the English language, but until Webster lists it as an accepted spelling for this meaning of the word, you guys should follow tradition.