. . .
P “It is about time.”
Q “It’s way past time.”
P “After stepping on your neck for years, they promise to step on your neck even harder if you try to wrench their foot off your neck. It may be past time.”
Q “They have used the logic embraced by the oppressed to oppress the patient and mature legislators. It’s way past time.”
P “Why not try to wrench their foot off, because when they get in power, they will be no less vindictive. Now the oppressed legislators can compel the Senate to adhere to the constitutional duty to advise and consent rather than to delay and deny.”
Q “Delaying legislation is a legislative prerogative. The fight today is about denying executive branch appointments and undermining the executive branch. At core, the fight is over separation of powers and the independence of the presidency.”
. . .
Q “The war also is being fought over another branch – the courts and the judiciary. Everyone in the know knows that there is no law, there is only ideology. They are fighting over which ideologues get to don the wigs and dictate policy from the bench.”
P “The vote is another skirmish in the continuing Civil War in America.”
Q “That national experience provides historical perspective and ironic understatement. Yet the war today isn’t civil.”
P “At core, the clan of confederates is furious that a Black man is in the White House.”
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[See the article titled http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/us/politics/reid-sets-in-motion-steps-to-limit-use-of-filibuster.html?hp&target=comments&_r=0#commentsContainer.]
[The benchmark price of .22s in November is not available because .22s are not available.]
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