How is the obstructionist Republican Senate celebrating it's record breaking use of the filibuster?

Question

On December 18th, The Republican Senate minority filibustered an omnibus budget bill, setting a modern-day record for blocking the most legislation during a congressional session. In just the first year of this two-year Congress, their use of the filibuster in the Senate topped the previous record, reached during the entire 107th Congress (also by the Republicans).

Way to go Republicans, thwarting the will of the majority! You must be soooo proud of yourselves.

fsfa - The Republicans hold the record this time, they held the record last time. They're pathetic.

UrPwned- Yes, Congress has incredibly low approval ratings, driven by the public's growing contempt for the obstructionist Republicans (20% approval, a whopping 73% disapproval). We'll see who's pwned come the elections...

redrum- Yes, both parties have been obstructionist, but it is the Republicans that are setting new records. Leave it to a partisan hack to assume I'm a Democrat.

Answer 1

The entire Bush administration has been one of either blocking, thwarting, burying or avoiding legislation. Their idea of government is that the opposing party is the "enemy" and that the American people really don't understand the world when they vote 70% against something.

This is one reason why Bush will go down in history as a weak President. He has the ability to stop things but no competence of vision to create anything of value for the nation.

The answers on this board are really pathetic, by the way, and show the profound ignorance of our electorate. Bush screws his own supporters, violates constitutional rule, tries to enforce one-party rule, and they applaud him, as if opposition to the President were a form of treason.


Amazing. America has a Death Wish.

Answer 2

*How come only Republicans are Obstructionists.
And not Demorats?
Personally I don't see anything wrong with it. I find that it is beneficial to the citizens. The fewer laws these morons in Washington pass the better for us.
Edit: By the way that approval rating applies to Congress as a whole. Leave it to a Demorat to Clintonize every thing.

Answer 3

They learned from the best obstructionists they had available at the time.

From my point of view, I was happy when the Democrats stopped the Republicans from acting like Liberals, and I'm happy that the Republicans are slowing down spending now.

Either way, when congress acts by spending more of our money we all lose.

Answer 4

Probably in much the same way the Democrats are celebrating breaking the record for the greatest amount of pork ever attached to one bill.

Answer 5

Is that the same procedure, the filibuster, that the republicans wanted to eliminate when they had control of the senate?

Answer 6

you spelled "its" wrong.

And like the others pointed out, don't blame the republicans for this; the democrats do the exact same thing. The party changes, but the game doesn't. They're both guilty.

Answer 7

You mean they out did the Democrats? Amazing. How does it feel on the other foot? Of course the difference is that the Republicans protected the interests of the country and the people, when the Democrats did it, it was to protect their party.

Answer 8

They're going to combine the celebration with one for doubling the national debt in the last seven years.

Answer 9

I applaud the Republicans for stopping the tax-and-spend Democrats. I am in favor of less...or no...legislation coming out of the Senate. Those old fogies always manage to screw things up. Examples: McCain-Fiengold, Sarbanes-Oxley.

Answer 10

They are spending they time Blaming the Dem's (CKCarl Rove is alive and still writing the Play Book)