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Breaking the Filibuster

by: Matt Singer

Wed May 13, 2009 at 13:16:31 PM MST


I was gonna write more, but just go read Markos and Yglesias. Giving 40 Senators the power to block anything is absurd. Even more absurd is the actions of individual Senators, including Democrats, who have concluded that anything they dislike is worthy of a filibuster.

Bring it up for an up-down vote and oppose it. Keep the filibuster for big freaking deals if we have to keep it at all. But letting a fierce minority tie the chamber in knots isn't good for the country at all.

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to limit the filibuster will not get enough vote to invoke cloture... thus goeth the Senate.

Filibusters are a rule of the senate (0.00 / 0)
I believe and aren't subject to, well, a filibuster.

The Repos wanted to remove the filibuster during bushII. The Dems called it the Nuclear Option and the gang of what was it 12 or something, mostly blue dogs and Repos like Lincoln Chaffe, negotiated a way for the Dems to keep the filibuster as long as they never used it.

Why the Dems don't do the same thing now only Mark and Jed can say :)


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