WP: Kurds Invoke Senate Rule (Repub Senator praising Filibuster rule)

[Pirate Smile]

Kurds Invoke Senate Rule

What's good for the Kurds?

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has been talking about "going nuclear" and outlawing the Democrats' use of the filibuster to block President Bush's judicial nominees. So yesterday we find freshman Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) offering this on the floor in favor of more funds for Iraq:

Isakson, noting he had just been in Iraq, said he asked a Kurdish leader if he worried that the majority Shiites would "overrun" the minority Kurds. And "he says, 'Oh, no, we have a secret weapon.' . . . And when asked what it was, he said one word, 'filibuster,' and then proceeded to describe their study of American democracy and our republic."

"If there were ever a reason for optimism about" giving more aid to Iraq, Isakson said, "it is one of their minority leaders proudly stating one of the pillars and principles of our government as the way they would ensure that the majority never overran the minority." The Democrats gleefully distributed his remarks.

Last month, a Frist spokesman, asked about some Republicans' reluctance to tinker with the Senate's filibuster rule, said Frist "will be having private discussions" with members about this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27320-2005Feb15.html

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1. Looks like Isakson din't get the memo...

Filibuster Bad? :wtf:

[Goldeneye]

2. the pubs love irony.

Ukraine, filibusters, compassionate conservative, the party of states rights and reduced gov't, fiscal responsibility, "spreading democracy" ...

[CottonBear]

3. He's one of my senators.

Compared to Saxby Chambliss (the guy who compared Cleland to OBL and Saddam in a TV ad), he's a moderate Republican. He's new up there and probably doesn't have all those Rove talking points memorized yet.
edit: Aren't I lucky to have two wingnut senators? :puke:

[asjr]

4. I've got Bill Frist and Lamar Alexander. When Frist speaks,

Lamar just says ditto. No back bone. And Frist is the scourge of the earth.

[CottonBear]

5. I grew up in TN.

Does Lamar still wear his red plaid shirt? My sympathies to a fellow red-stater.

[Supersedeas]

6. do as we say....not as do