Joe Biden's Filibuster Hypocrisy

Hmm. As a socialist myself, I'd like to hear your definition of the concept. Certainly bailing out Wall Street and having taxpayers pick up the tab is not any form of socialism that I know. Allowing private contractors to continue to profit off the war and not be held accountable for when they kill innocent civilians doesn't sound like any socialism that I know. Is letting drug companies continue to make extreme profits while not ensuring universal coverage socialist? Not in my understanding of the concept. Look, I"m not an Obama supporter (since I am after all, a socialist), but I have heard him be criticized by the right for being a socialist and for excepting a ton of special interest money from Wall Street. You may try to make a case for one of those things, but you certainly can't make a case for both at the same time.

And as for letting the Republicans have a seat at the table, at no point in the Bush administration did the Republicans care about having Democrats at the table.

OldMan of NJ 6:25PM January 29, 2010

There's a good reason that there have been so many filibusters in recent days: the radical socialist policies will harm the country! The only rational thing that the Republicans can do is filibuster.

Perhaps if the socialists would let the Republicans have a seat at the table, the bills wouldn't be so harmful.

Jim of TX 10:26AM January 28, 2010

You have to be kidding me, right? When the Republican party has set yearly records for the number of threatened filibusters (doubling anything else we've seen in the psat), you're calling Biden a hypocrite for supporting the existence of a filibuster and talking about when to use it effectively? When the Republican Party has effectively rewritten the rules of congress by making sure that every single vote has to reach a supermajority of 60, you're calling out Joe Biden because of a filibuster on some key votes? Honestly, it is this kind of outright manipulation of the truth and seeming disregard for the public record that has me worried about the future of this country. People simply need to look up the facts on how many times it has been used by each party and there is no comparison. Suggestions that somebody who might disagree with you is a dictator is also signs that our country is in trouble.

OldMan of NJ 12:30AM January 25, 2010

Joe and most dems do not have any values that would guide them when they don't get their way.

The same could be said for most dictators and communists. wait maybe there is a common thread here!

NHred of NH 8:11PM January 19, 2010