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  <title>Cloture!</title>
  <author>Michael</author>
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  <blurb>&lt;a href="http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/cloture.htm"&gt;  60 senate seats = cloture&lt;/a&gt;
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cloture - The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, and thereby overcome a filibuster. Under the cloture rule (Rule XXII), the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours, but only by vote of three-fifths of the full Senate, normally 60 votes. 
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Remember when the repugs wanted to take the filibuster away because they could change the rules?  
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Let&amp;#39;s take it away from them by making them lose fair and square.
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Give your sweetheart the gift of making republicans &lt;strong&gt;sit down and shut up&lt;/strong&gt; because they are losers.  Give cloture.</blurb>
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      <pageblurb>It&amp;apos;s payback time for Saxby Chambliss and his sleazy ad campaign against Max Cleland.</pageblurb>
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      <pageblurb>Laugh along with Al while you put the spirit of Paul Wellstone back in his seat.  Senator Wellstone died in a weird plane crash just before the election in 2002.   Al&amp;apos;s humor is going to be newsworthy and the joke will always be on the republicans.</pageblurb>
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      <pageblurb>They tried to put him at the bottom of the ballot.  Why are the Republicans so afraid of Ronnie Musgrove?</pageblurb>
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      <pageblurb>Pick off their leader by defeating Mitch McConjob, the minority leader.  See them scatter in all directions.</pageblurb>
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