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Yes, Republicans Will Be Able to Filibuster Everything!!

The popular liberal Daily Kos website had this — no kidding around here — as the 3d sentence in a front page Post there today:

Brown’s victory gives Republicans the numbers in the Senate to filibuster most Democratic legislation…

Yes, it does, if one goes by the reasoning of the New Yorker’s Hendrik Helzberg, where the Filibuster is an evil tool that only one party has the right to both use, and prevent the other party from using.

Because, of course, Democrats used it all the time to stop legislation earlier this decade, right? And in particular, to stop all those super ideological Judicial appointments by the Bush Administration, too.

Or maybe not.  Let’s look at the ramifications of Democrats presuming that the filibuster is an occasional tool, except when their opponents badger them, then it is only an “extraordinary circumstances” tool, on the one hand,  but that in the hands of their political opponents can simply be used with impunity to no challenge at all.

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