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Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:00 AM

When winning is still losing

Antiwar legislation can get majority support in the Senate, but not a filibuster-proof 60 votes. Why are Democrats letting Republicans off so easy?
Joan Walsh

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  • Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:17 AM

    Please explain

    Joan, please explain how we got into this situation in the first place. I remember that in 2005, the Gang-Of-14 compromise prevented Democrats from filibustering Bush's far right-wing judicial nominees, and they were confirmed on party-line simple-majority votes. Now, with the Democrats supposedly in power, a simple majority isn't sufficient. How does this make any sense?

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