Glock-A-Roo
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I was listening to NPR on the way in to work this A.M.; no snide comments please...! They had a story about the bill to modify class action lawsuits that would tilt some of the advantage away from the trial lawyers. After NPR got done trashing the bill, they had a separate segment on how Frist used some obscure parliamentary procedures to prevent unrelated additions to the bill.
The Dems squawked about it, of course, and NPR made it sound like adding unrelated junk to popular bills was the time-honored and "founding father approved" way of doing business in the Senate. They pissed and moaned about Frist blocking unrelated additions, and specifically mentioned the AWB renewal. In a surprising twist, though, NPR referred to the AWB as "a ban on certain types of semi-automatic assault style rifles", which is about the most honest description I've heard from the mainstream media.
Anyway, it looks like Frist is using all the tricks to block last-minute, unrelated additions to popular bills. Let's hope it works.
The Dems squawked about it, of course, and NPR made it sound like adding unrelated junk to popular bills was the time-honored and "founding father approved" way of doing business in the Senate. They pissed and moaned about Frist blocking unrelated additions, and specifically mentioned the AWB renewal. In a surprising twist, though, NPR referred to the AWB as "a ban on certain types of semi-automatic assault style rifles", which is about the most honest description I've heard from the mainstream media.
Anyway, it looks like Frist is using all the tricks to block last-minute, unrelated additions to popular bills. Let's hope it works.