[Peace-discuss] Iraq protest tomorrow/Tues, 5pm Veterans Memorial, Broadway and Main, Urbana

[Robert Naiman]

Depends who you mean by "they."

29 Senators voted for the Feingold-Reid withdrawal bill. The prospect
of getting 41 Senators to filibuster war funding is fairly remote.

Sadly, we don't live in a European parliamentary democracy. For better
and worse - mostly worse - there is no such thing as the "Democratic"
position on anything. If you can win a Democratic primary and get
elected, you can say anything you want.

But in any event, I submit that one doesn't have to support or oppose
into any particular legislative strategy for ending the war to attend
tomorrow's protest. It only takes 51 votes in the Senate, apparently,
to confirm a Federalist Society hack to the Supreme Court. It should
only require 51 votes to stop the war.

On 7/16/07, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> This is a matter of barking up the wrong memorial.
>
> If the Democrats were serious about ending the war, instead of just
> wanting it to use the the war to benefit Democrats, they could do so by
> using the filibuster.  Instead of voting further funding for the war,
> which they continue to do, they could prevent any war funding measures
> from passing the Senate.  That requires only 41 votes, which they have.
>
> --CGE
>
>
> Robert Naiman wrote:
> > There will be a protest tomorrow of the use of the Senate "filibuster"
> > to block efforts to end the war in Iraq.
> >
> > Tuesday, 5pm, Veterans Memorial, Broadway and Main, Urbana.
> >
> > http://political.moveon.org/event/counterfilibuster/39352
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