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In article <39og4d$m0d@anshar.shadow.net>, Don Whiteside <dwhite@shadow.net> writes:
|> 
|> In article <39mvfa$s1q@tequesta.gate.net>, <dcitron@gate.net> writes:
|> > Scott Pallack (skybird@sefl.satelnet.org) wrote:
|> > : The Republicans seem to define "bi-partisianship" as "doing what the 
|> > : Republicans want."
|> 
|> > In contrast to the Democrats, who define "gridlock" as anytime 
|> > they don't have a sufficient majority to do EVERYTHING they want.
|> 
|>   As long as I live, I will always remember Bob Dole on tv stating that 
|> until the Republicans got to hold Whitewater hearings the way they wanted 
|> them, they would flat out block health care. This man, elected to 
|> represent the American people, stood up and made a promise to hold up 
|> legislation over meaningless hearings with no force of law.
|>   Now, I could care less if congress wants to hassle people for _no 
|> reason_ extensively, and if Dole and his cronies don't want health care, 
|> fine. But it's your duty to debate it and attempt to defeat it. To 
|> promise to simply obstruct it is an affront to the people he's supposed 
|> to serve.

You and I know that Senator Mitchell and his cronies never, ever, used any
procedural tactics to block legislation they didn't like (did you ever
watch committees on CSPAN??).   No, never.  Get with the program, this 
is about winning and which side is the Good and which is the Bad is
totally, 100% relative to the observer. 

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