[lbo-talk] ciao, 60

[Max Sawicky]

The explanation lacking in this thread is the evident failure of the
DP's survival instinct.  Whatever you say about them, they have to
want to stay in power.  The have failed to do a lot to that end that
was arguably doable, well short of provoking mass popular uprisings.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 21, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
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>> The Republicans were threatening to do it back when they were the
>> majority -- the slang phrase was "the nuclear option." At that
>> point, of course, all the Dems (and The Nation magazine) were
>> desperate to "save the filibuster!"
>
> Idiots.
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