| Tyrone Slothrop |
10-07-2004 09:10 PM |
Coming soon to an election near you.
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Originally posted by sgtclub
Right, because there weren't legitimate concerns regarding the union status of the employees.
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I understand that the right wing wanted to undo federal employees' civil-service protections. But you are on crack if you think the White House was primarily motivated by that cause rather than the political hay it made by smearing Cleland and others as soft on terror.
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But why do you say this. You just agreed that there are legitimate things to quibble with in the commission's recommendations. Should each member ignore that and let it come to a vote anyway?
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Again, now you're just arguing the underlying merits of the proposals, while I'm talking about process. It's not a question of whether "each member" lets the thing come to a vote. The GOP leadership isn't letting the 9/11 Commission's proposal come to a vote, because it would win. They're trying to produce an outcome where just before the election, Congress is faced with an up-or-down vote on the leadership's particular proposal. If this happens, no one (at all in the House, and ultimately in the Senate) will be able to vote on the Commission's recommendation that authority be centralized in a new position over the DCI, because that isn't an option. |
