[jaxmike]

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Read the document again.

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Again, I have read it and the argument is just as powerful AGANIST your postition as it is for it. If you cannot see that, you are even less intelligent than I had previously believed.

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measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority

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I believe that this is what you are basing your nonsense on. Well, here goes. The rights of the minority party and the rules of justice are NOT being infringed upon. In fact, they are being validated more than anything. Here is what I mean. By using the "consitutional option" the RULE OF JUSTICE is being restored and the rights of the minority are being recognized. The rights they have, as opposed to the rights they do not have. In the 200+ years of the history of the Senate, at no time, up till now, has a filibusted been used on Judicial appointments. The RULE of JUSTICE is being confirmed IF the Senate changes its rules to forbid the filibuster of judicial nominees. Why? Because the Constitution GRANTS each branch of Congress the POWER to make its own rules. Furthermore, at NO point in the Constitution does it state the a SUPERMAJORITY is needed to confirm a judicial nominee.

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By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

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This is straight from the Federalist papers. Do you at least admit that the rogue Senators who are intolerantly filibustering these nominees (many of which are minority) fall into the definition of a faction?

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If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote.

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This is all we are really talking about here. A vote. The Democrats are OBSTRUCTING the work of the Senate and FAILING in their RESPONSIBILITY to provide ADVICE AND CONSENT to the Presidents nominees.