Rush with more:
You remember when the Republicans ran the Senate, all we heard from the likes of Harry Reid and Dick Durbin and Dianne Feinstein, "What about the rights of the minority?" as though the minority had the right to win every vote because they were the minority, they were victims. Joe Barton turns that argument around on them.Ethics? What Ethics? Add Dick Durbin to the end of this parade of horribles:
BARTON: I've never seen anything like last night. When you look up on that board on there or over there, it says 215 to 213 final, that's it. And in the 23 years that I've been in the House, I've never seen a vote that said final and been gaveled reopened until last night. I mean how important is it that you win a motion to recommit? My gosh, all you do is take it back to committee, report it back out, muscle your troops in line, and pass the bill as you want it. The strength of a democracy is how you treat the minority, and the minority's strength is in using the rules. When we're smart enough to use the rules and win, we ought to let it count.
RUSH: Right on, right on, right on, right on. Yeah, Republicans have no rights when they're the minority. Those minority rights only extend to Democrats.
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