Republican Senator Discovers Minority Can ‘Filibuster,’ Is Outraged
Source: Daily Intelligencer (New York Magazine)
August 27, 2015 8:46 a.m
by Jonathan Chait
During the first two years of the Obama administration, Democrats enjoyed comfortable control of the House of Representatives, and well over half the Senate. Republican leverage became the filibuster, which the party used as a routine supermajority requirement to block everything. Senator Bob Corker was one of those Republicans. Corker helped craft an agreement to bring a bill to a vote in Congress that would overturn the Obama administration’s Iran nuclear agreement. This bill flipped the old dynamic — now it is Democrats who want to block a bill, and Republicans who want to pass it. And Corker is outraged, outraged, that Democrats would resort to a tactic as low as a filibuster to block his bill:
"...when he saw Reid say that he is trying to build a filibuster, his response was: “Are you kidding me?”
“Is that where they really want to be? Do they really want to vote to block consideration of … probably the biggest foreign policy endeavor?” Corker said in an interview. “Do they want to be in a place where they voted to keep from going to the substance [of the Iran debate]?”
Amazing. The first time, the very first time, Democrats might use a filibuster of their own, you have a Republican managing to talk himself into the view that a filibuster is bad for democracy.
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politicians who habitually playact or their followers who keep buying the same lies and promises every single time. I saw an old 1960s political movie with Henry Fonda and I couldn't believe the campaign speeches, they were almost identical to what republicans say today. Just change a few words (like the "red threat" to "Islamic terrorists"
and you have a master copy for almost any GOP speech today. It keeps working with the same people, so I guess there was no reason to change the format.
I've wondered the same thing about people I've known who are compulsive liars, but they also tend to have a drinking problem or drugs or gambling, so I suppose that is how they escape when confronted with their real self.
After all, these are the people who had NO PROBLEM with the things Bush and Cheney were doing to the country for eight years, but then, on Jan. 20, 2009, they woke up and suddenly "realized" that America was in deep trouble!!! 
I've seen "IOKIYAR" a few times on political sites, and was puzzled by it. Thanks for solving the mystery, procon 
