John Harwood

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John Harwood @JohnJHarwood

"...and which passed into the Spanish as filibustero, because the sleek, swift ship used by Caribbean pirates was called a filibote, and into legislative parlance because the device was, after all, a pirating, or hijacking of the very heart of the legislative process..." /2 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 15, 2021 Hibernated

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John Harwood @JohnJHarwood

from Robert Caro's Master of the Senate, about LBJ: "there took place therefore so many 'extended discussions' of measures to keep them from coming to a vote that the device got a name, 'filibuster,' from the Dutch word vrijbuiter, which means 'freebooter' or 'pirate'..." /1 — PolitiTweet.org

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"Like seniority, filibustering became a tool of the South early on..." /3 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 15, 2021 Hibernated