the cost of keeping America free
Nov. 21st, 2003 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisyphusshruggedsome people rely on trial lawyers to change the world
it costs some people an arm and, well, two legs
Go ahead, view the ad and hear what the 9/11 Commission is being required not to look at.
Max Cleland. Still serving his country.
Saxby Chambliss. You run for the United States Congress and to your mounting horror, you end up... in the United States Congress.
Sucks being you.
While courts continue to legislate from the bench, filibusters are stopping the appointment of judges who say they will honor the U.S. Constitution. That's prompting Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to declare judicial filibusters unconstitutional.
"I have decided that I've had it, that I don't see any breakthrough any time soon," Graham said. "So, I have decided to take this case to the Supreme Court."
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Graham, who will be joined in the suit by Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, said he hopes to file it early next year.
it costs some people an arm and, well, two legs
Cleland's opponent, Saxby Chambliss, who sat out Vietnam with a bad knee, aired a spot featuring unflattering pictures of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein ... and Max Cleland. Chambliss charged Cleland, the Vietnam vet amputee, was soft on national security because he'd voted against creating the Homeland Security Act. In truth, Cleland co-wrote the legislation to create the Homeland Security Department, but objected to repeated attempts by the White House to deprive future Homeland Security employees of traditional civil service protection.
Go ahead, view the ad and hear what the 9/11 Commission is being required not to look at.
Max Cleland. Still serving his country.
Saxby Chambliss. You run for the United States Congress and to your mounting horror, you end up... in the United States Congress.
Sucks being you.
