Filibusters CAN Be Killed!
Rush Limbaugh read an interesting piece from the National Review Online today that I found quite interesting. It talks about how the House of Representatives abolished the filibuster back in the 19th century.
Here's a little bit of the article, but I highly suggest you go read the full story for yourself!
Clearly, it is much easier to shut down a windbag in the House than it is in the Senate, where the filibuster still protects the right to effectively unlimited debate. But as the Senate moves closer to some sort of confrontation over filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees, there's a question hanging in the air worth asking: Why is the filibuster allowed in the Senate but not in the House of Representatives?
The answer is that the filibuster did indeed once have a home in the House. That it doesn't anymore is a tribute to a 19th-century Republican hero: Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine. If he is recalled at all today, it is because of the memorable nickname his enemies fastened to him in the wake of Reed's successful abolition of the filibuster in the House: "Czar."
I think you'll find that, as you read through the article, a lot of details from this 19th century story will sound quite familiar in light of today's debate surrounding the filibuster in the Senate.
But you know those silly Liberals are always so certain that they are so right all the time, it's hard to convince them of anything.
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