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I posted this in another thread, but thought it might be an ok topic of its own.
To avoid filibustering is not only to be impotent, but it means you gelded yourself. If the republicans were reasonable and fair adversaries, then keeping your powder dry would make sense. But let me couch it this way: If you were a Jew in 1940s germany, would you think it better to stand up and possibly be sent to a camp, or collaborate with the nazis? Even if you are unsucessful, sometimes the situation is so dire that you either have to stand up against tyrants or you become complicit in their crimes.
Sometimes the act of standing up is more important than the outcome of that act. And yet, sometimes, the act of standing up draws more likeminded people to your act of bravery, and then you have a lot MORE power.
No leader ever drew more followers by capitulating to the enemy, that I'm aware of.
as my uncle used to say "Go BIG or go home".
If THEY don't do it, no one else is in their position to do so. They owe it to the american people to do everything in their power, even if unsucessful, and EVEN IF IT MEANS NOT GETTING REELECTED, to serve the people. We hired them to do a job. We didn't hire them to protect their own employment. Public service is a sacred trust and its about damn time we got back to realizing that.
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