A Filibuster IS an Up or Down Vote
The Administration and Senate Republicans are aggressively seeking an “up or down vote” on Samuel Alito. What they fail to acknowledge is that a filibuster IS an up or down vote. It’s simply an up or down vote that requires 60 votes, instead of a simple 51 majority.
Alito is seeking a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land. A position of this importance deserves more than a simply majority support.
Samuel Alito holds extreme views and if confirmed will set the Court back decades.
An Up or Down Vote – Defined
January 27, 2006 · 1 Comment
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euandus // October 27, 2009 at 2:19 pm |
I have noticed that some bloggers are questioning whether we should continue to have a Senate, partly because of the filibuster. I just wrote a post on the U.S. Senate itself. I argue that it was designed with discordant goals and that it should be more like the European Council in the EU in representing State governments. Here is the link (in case you are interested): http://euandus3.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/the-u-s-senate-what-is-it-really/