On U.S. Congress Mandate Part 2

clipped from www.prospect.org At this rate, Republicans will reach 153 filibusters by the end of the 110th Congress -- nearly three times the previous high of 58 the GOP has succeeded in sinking a popular agenda in this way without paying any real political price. In early July, Democrats began to demonstrate some understanding that Republican obstructionism would continue indefinitely "there's a growing consensus that we ought to" force Republicans to carry out their filibuster threats. The logic was clear. If Republicans were forced to actually filibuster these bills for 24 hours a day, the press would converge on a piece of true political drama: the spectacle of GOP senators standing up all day long in support of Big Oil, or Gonzales, or the president's war in Iraq Democrats now find The DOD appropriations bill has not passed the Senate and no Republican filibuster has been broken Democrats will have the perfect opportunity to make Republicans pay a political price for their intransigence