regardless of which party poses it, isn t that the core principle of democracy, whether it s this or don t ask, don t tell or whatever? the senate is definitely not a democracy, it takes 60 votes to do almost anything. this is the way, again using the word, the game the played. you have to understand the rules to get things done. it doesn t matter the majority has rights. not ideologically, i hatd to use the word, but the senate is a very conservative institution. i also think jim demint had another agenda here when he was talking about reading this bill over a couple of days, and that is to delay. right. whatever is before the congress. and as you pointed out earlier, there s some very important things before the congress. not the least of which is the s.t.a.r.t. treaty, don t ask, don t tell, the dream act and on and on. and if you run out the time, then guess what? you can t get to it. so, steve, is this just the vision of the future? this is what the next two years is goi
that their earmarks were going to come out in this legislation. god bless jim demint for pulling this stunt this afternoon, it worked. but, erick, this is probably a naive question, but when it comes down to it, what s wrong with letting a bill come up for a vote? regardless of which party poses it, isn t that the core principle of democracy, whether it s this or don t ask, don t tell or whatever? the senate is definitely not a democracy, it takes 60 votes to do almost anything. this is the way, again using the word, the game the played. you have to understand the rules to get things done. it doesn t matter the majority has rights. not ideologically, i hatd to use the word, but the senate is a very conservative institution. i also think jim demint had another agenda here when he was talking about reading this bill over a couple of days, and that is to delay. right. whatever is before the congress. and as you pointed out earlier, there s some very important things before the c
castle in delaware. look at nevada. look at alaska. in primaries this year where establishment figures were beaten. do i want to be the next person to face that kind of a primary challenge because i voted for this bill, because i voted for earmarks? much easier to join the republican resistance. so you had this bizarre situation where you had people who had earmarks in this bill coming out and saying they were opposing their own earmarks. yeah, it really was a comedy of errors coming out of washington with this. the republicans had to know after voting for the earmark ban that their earmarks were going to come out in this legislation. god bless jim demint for pulling this stunt this afternoon, it worked. but, erick, this is probably a naive question, but when it comes down to it, what s wrong with letting a bill come up for a vote? regardless of which party poses it, isn t that the core principle of democracy, whether it s this or don t ask, don t tell or whatever? it takes 60
that their earmarks were going to come out in this legislation. god bless jim demint for pulling this stunt this afternoon, it worked. but, erick, this is probably a naive question, but when it comes down to it, what s wrong with letting a bill come up for a vote? regardless of which party poses it, isn t that the core principle of democracy, whether it s this or don t ask, don t tell or whatever? it takes 60 votes to do almost anything. this is the way, again using the word, the game the played. you have to understand the rules to get things done. it doesn t matter the majority has rights, i hate to use the word buff the senate is a very conservative institution. i also think jim demint had another agenda here when he was talking about reading this bill over a couple of days, and that is to delay. right. whatever is before the congress. and as you pointed out earlier, there s some very important things before the congress. not the least of which is the
yeah, it really was a comedy of errors coming out of washington with this. the republicans had to know after voting for the earmark ban that their earmarks were going to come out in this legislation. god bless jim demint for pulling this stunt this afternoon, it worked. but, erick, this is probably a naive question, but when it comes down to it, what s wrong with letting a bill come up for a vote? regardless of which party poses it, isn t that the core principle of democracy, whether it s this or don t ask, don t tell or whatever? the senate is definitely not a democracy, it takes 60 votes to do almost anything. this is the way, again using the word, the game the played. you have to understand the rules to get things done. it doesn t matter the majority has rights. not ideologically, i hate to use the word, but the senate is a very conservative institution. i also think jim demint had another agenda here when he was talking about reading this bill over a couple of days, and tha