Harry Reid promises new filibuster rules to end Republican 'abuses'
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[QUOTE=smurfy;38358505][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957#Filibuster]The longest filibuster ever[/url] was 24 hours long[/QUOTE]
I love the delicious irony that it was a Democrat preventing the Civil Rights Act from getting passed.
[QUOTE=Ridge;38379529]I love the delicious irony that it was a Democrat preventing the Civil Rights Act from getting passed.[/QUOTE]
Democrats and Republicans switched places some time in the 20th century.
Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, a party now well-known for bigotry and racism.
[QUOTE=Ridge;38379529]I love the delicious irony that it was a Democrat preventing the Civil Rights Act from getting passed.[/QUOTE]
yeah, i guess it's ironic if you have literally no idea what you're talking about
[QUOTE=Ridge;38379529]I love the delicious irony that it was a Democrat preventing the Civil Rights Act from getting passed.[/QUOTE]
gj knowing nothing about political history mr poster child for conservatives
[QUOTE=lulzlalz;38379585]Democrats and Republicans switched places some time in the 20th century.
Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, a party now well-known for bigotry and racism.[/QUOTE]
Democrats were slavers and Republicans were abolitionists.
Now, Democrats are slackers and Republicans are evangelists.
