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The arguments, as best as I can make out, boil down to two: that filibustering to block political appointees is unconstitutional and that the Democratic use of it to thwart Bush’s nominees is wholly unprecedented. The second of these founders on reality: Republicans blocked almost exactly as many of Bill Clinton’s nominees as Democrats have George W. Bush’s. And the first claim founders ... ................
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