Democrats Force Delay of Bolton Final Vote

[Professor S]

1) The filibuster is a way of coersion from the minority party, and is to be used very sparingly, and until recently it has been used very sparingly. Now it seems that every time the majority, as in ELECTED BY MORE CITIZENS, wants to elect any official the demcrats throw in a filibuster. If they continue, the filibuster will be banned and it will be their fault. So far the democrats have used the filibuster to stop presidential appointments, something that has never been done before. This is abuse of a legislative tool by the minority. This is politics, plain and simple, and has nothing to do with the quality of Bolton, Owens or any of Bush's other appointments. The democrats just want to cry foul when they are the ones committing them.

The democrats are useing the filibuster to thwart democracy, and then accuse the republicans of being fascists. How amusing.

2) The Republican party one the election by over 3 million more votes than the democrats and they have far more representatives in both houses. I'd say that more Americans are in their corner. Just because the print and Tv media would makeyou think that they are supported by only a few bible beating radical KKK members, dosn't make it so.