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Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

What Bill was that troop funding attached to? Profiling? I guess that's better than a full cavity search. And please, PLEASE, stop bringing up Bush. He hasn't been President for well over a year and a half. Please. If you have to compare Obama to Bush to make him look good, you kind of prove my point for me. The dems were fillibustering judicial nominees. A big difference from legislative fillibustering. As far as the Republicans voting no on everything. Riot, I would have too.

The troop funding bill was separate, is normally a routine approval to keep the military paid, and was the week prior to the healthcare vote. The GOP frankly (and stupidly) admitted to reporters they were fillibustering that funding to try and delay a healthcare vote before Christmas. They caved on it (you can't withhold paychecks from our soldiers)

Bush is mentioned and brought up, as the people who are attacking Obama regarding his response to Crotchbomber are Republican, and completely hypocritical to not recall how Bush, in the exact same situation, did nothing. No press release, to discussion at all for a week, then only casually in passing. And that was pretty much it.

Okay, fine - let's just discuss what Obama has done. The day it happened, his office issued comment. For after that, I"ll quote Steve Benen:

The Abdulmutallab attempt was two weeks ago today. Over the course of these two weeks, President Obama has spoken publicly about the incident three times -- Dec. 29, Jan. 5, and Jan. 9. He also devoted his weekly address to the subject last weekend. Also, over the span of two weeks, the president's national security team prepared a relatively thorough security review of what transpired and a new directive on corrective actions.

Which President do I want to deal with this? Clearly Obama. He not only addressed it as soon as he had accurate information, clearly spoke aggressively against our enemy (Al Queda) and within two weeks changed procedures that tighten security and profile flights incoming from particular countries. I read the FBI is already in Ghana looking for the guys who trained this kid. Obama definitely gets a big old for that.

Regarding fillibustering: look at the numbers of legislative fillibusters in the past. It's gone way up. The use of it has changed. It used to be used only for important differences in major legislation.

The Dems have the votes, far more than enough majority, and our Senate works by majority rule. But the GOP are fillibustering virtually everything, forcing cloture votes for the simplist of measures to pass. That's absurd. For no other purpose than delay, obstruction and to make Obama look bad - which they have admitted in public, too.

There's talk about Reid should be forcing the GOP to actually fillibuster in person (not just notify the threat) and cause them to be present on C-span, standing at the podium, so the public can watch who is actually obstructing the progress of government here. They are discussing doing that rather than changing the fillibuster rules.

If the GOP wanted to vote no on everything, they just should have voted no and stood on their principles. Not fillibuster, delay, obstruct every darn thing in an attempt to circumvent the Constitution. Not put their party and their politics above country.