HEY DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP! I know you troll this place. Listen up.

[texshelters]

73. What about using cloture

to end the filibuster like Reid said he might? Those of us who are disappointed with the way Congressional Democrats failed to make progress with a majority in 09-10 know the rules about passing bills and it's insulting to suggest otherwise. Many of us, me included, wanted more passion and fight and fire. It's as if the Senate Democrats didn't care, and the blue dogs were the worst.

They live by the same rules as Republicans, but why were they able to push things through when Bush was President? It's because they fight for what they believe, even though what they believe is destructive.

We need an LBJ in the Senate who can push and bully legislation through. He was an SOB, but he was usually on the right side of domestic issues.

In sum, passing bills is NOT just about procedure, you have to have passion and guile as well and the Democrats lack both.

And where's the fight to end the filibuster? Reid just said he would do it to look tough; he didn't mean it.

PTxS