{"id":9100,"date":"2006-11-18T00:28:33","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T05:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9100.html"},"modified":"2006-11-18T00:28:33","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T05:28:33","slug":"gimme-my-filibuster-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/gimme-my-filibuster-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimme my filibuster back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-reaction.blogspot.com\/\">Michael J.W. Stickings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember how the Senate Republicans talked about doing away with the filibuster? Well, disingenuous hypocrites that they are, it looks like they may want to use it now that they&#8217;re back in the minority.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/11\/17\/republicans-just-love-the-filibuster-now\/\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>, which has the video, Sen. James Inhofe has &#8220;threatened to filibuster any legislation on Climate Change&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote yesterday, Inhofe is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9097.html\">exceedingly dangerous idiot<\/a>, much more even that I had previously thought. And now we have yet more evidence that he wants to take us all down with him.<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: McConnell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsblog.org\/judicial-nominations-3170-new-senate-minority-leader-threatens-filibusters-if-controversial-judicial-nominees-not-confirmed.html\">likes the filibuster<\/a>, too &#8212; for judicial nominations, no less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Remember how the Senate Republicans talked about doing away with the filibuster? Well, disingenuous hypocrites that they are, it looks like they may want to use it now that they&#8217;re back in the minority. According to Crooks and Liars, which has the video, Sen. James Inhofe has &#8220;threatened to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}