Thanks for the primer on the finer points of ...
...Parliamentary Wrangling. (And you were right...this is news to me).
I guess I've been spoiled. In my district we have a long history of an independent centrest representative. It was Democratic when I moved here, it's now Republican, and I'll probably vote for him this time, since I've seen him cross party lines several times.
jb4
"Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
&mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration