Kerry: "Delay is no longer just a former Republican leader—it’s become a Republican way of life."

[kpete]

VIDEO: http://kerry.senate.gov/newsroom/kerry-floor-speech-7-27-07.cfm

Delay is no longer just a former Republican leader—it’s become a Republican way of life.

The Republicans are setting records for filibusters and obstruction. Too paraphrase Winston Churchill: "never, in the field of Senate legislation, was so much progress blocked for so many by so few."

Actually, they’ve made history—thanks to Senate Republicans, LA no longer has the worst gridlock in America.

On issue after issue, these Republicans chose to filibuster – and to do so just two short years after they declared the filibuster—as then-Majority Leader Bill Frist said in late 2004—"nothing less than the tyranny of the minority."

After expressing outrage at the mere hint of a Democratic filibuster last session, Republicans have suddenly become the principled champions of minority rights here in the Senate. After threatening "the nuclear option" when Democrats stood up to defend the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge —they’ve introduced the filibuster to stop everyday business in the Senate. The rubber-stamp Republicans have now become the road block Republicans.


http://www.johnkerry.com/2007/7/26/kerry-challenges-bush-republican-allies-to-stop-obstructionism

[rodeodance]

1. yes. I heard him on the floor yesterday= Great.

[rodeodance]

3. He also had a quote from Lott who said a stupid thing.

[Donnachaidh]

2. NAME IT KERRY!

Put the truth out there -- it's NOT the Democrats. It's the whining, crying, foot-dragging Republican faction that is willing to tear this country to shreds to keep things from happening. Put the blame where it is deserved. :bounce:

[ProgressiveAmPatriot]

4. It is what they are all about, slowing down social progress n/t

[iconoclastic cat]

5. Ooooo, a *speech*!

You go, Dems!

[kenny blankenship]

6. Maybe we need more demonstrations of this obstruction, as in the Levin-Reid allnighter

I kind of doubt the voters know what's going on. They just see the lack of a result, not how results they want are being blocked.

[KitSileya]

8. Yeah, these are the guys who cried when they had to work 5 days a week

instead of 3. Forcing them to actually work for their filibusters by doing all-nighters and thus forcing the press to report on what these traitors are really doing, can only help the Democrats. It makes the Dems look stronger, more willing to fight.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Yup. They will resist transparency at all cost.

That's because they don't believe in open government:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1451876&mesg_id=1451876

[wisteria]

9. I love that line! It says it all about the Republicans. n/t

[Hydra]

10. Yay!

Drag them through the mud they're slinging! It's long past time they get called for trying to play by a double standard! :applause: