This is his actual argument against allowing the Senate to pass healthcare reform by a simple majority:
the United States is not going to tolerate a group of people trying apply kind of a Hugo Chavez majoritarian rule
Is that why we hate Hugo Chavez now? Because of his profound commitment to majoritarian rule? Yes, that must be why conservatives dislike him.
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I guess I hadn't realized how attached people are to their holiday greetings. There are a number of comments that deserve some examination here, at least if you have any interest in living comfortably in a multi-cultural society.
Trivial Pursuit has a brilliant post on tyranny of the majority and the preference for judicial restraint the excesses of democracy.
A year into the administration, after the teabagging parties and record numbers of filibusters, senior Obama advisor Axelrod finally used the magic words:
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Perhaps Newt is still upset that those lousy majoritarians in the House defeated his Contract on America.