Exactly. There's precisely 0.01% chance that if the Dems make a filibuster exception, that McConnell won't toss it completely.
And, oddly, that small chance is that McConnell needs the filibuster in place in order to continue obstructing. Now and for the foreseeable future, the filibuster is required for when the GOP is in the minority.
Exactly. There's precisely 0.01% chance that if the Dems make a filibuster exception, that McConnell won't toss it completely.
And, oddly, that small chance is that McConnell needs the filibuster in place in order to continue obstructing. Now and for the foreseeable future, the filibuster is required for when the GOP is in the minority.
McConnell tossed it for Justices after Reid tossed it for federal judges.
Just get rid of it. Make the minority party work for the votes to pass legislation. I think the Dems will keep the Senate, which puts McConnell closer to mortality. He may never be ML again. There isnтАЩt anybody else as canny as he is, except maybe Grassley and they certainly arenтАЩt going to make PeePaw ML.
Get rid of the filibuster and make them get back to actually working.
It's an interesting procedural rule which the minority is very much motivated to have in place. I have mixed feelings about it. Bottom line, it seems like we should be a nation of majority rule - not requiring "super" majority rule.
I'd favor a rule where nothing became law without 10% of the opposing party's support. Laws aren't meant to be willy-nilly easy. They also are not meant to give one party, minority or majority, totalitarian rule which Mitch essentially has had for 20 years or so.
Disagree with this but understand your sentiment. I think the problem is that we donтАЩt do enough. I also think 10% is misleading. If you got to Wyoming senators that would represent like .1% of the population. If you got to California that is >10% of the population. Hard to make the math work with the population
Get rid of it. Make politicians put their money where their mouth is. If republicans pass crazy shit, let them suffer at the ballot box. Same goes for democrats. IтАЩve come the conclusion that a lot of our problems are caused by inaction not too much legislation.
I hear ya. Sometimes I wish we'd just go with a parliamentarian system. (Yeah, I know, grass is always greener.)
There is a, gulp, *compromise* approach: make the filibuster Jimmy Stewart again! Perhaps if conducting a filibuster were sufficiently painful, it would actually fulfil its promise as suggested by its supporters.
Exactly. There's precisely 0.01% chance that if the Dems make a filibuster exception, that McConnell won't toss it completely.
And, oddly, that small chance is that McConnell needs the filibuster in place in order to continue obstructing. Now and for the foreseeable future, the filibuster is required for when the GOP is in the minority.
McConnell tossed it for Justices after Reid tossed it for federal judges.
Just get rid of it. Make the minority party work for the votes to pass legislation. I think the Dems will keep the Senate, which puts McConnell closer to mortality. He may never be ML again. There isnтАЩt anybody else as canny as he is, except maybe Grassley and they certainly arenтАЩt going to make PeePaw ML.
Get rid of the filibuster and make them get back to actually working.
Just make them actually filibuster if they do it! Stand there and talk until they drop. Used to be fun to watch esp when you couldn't sleep.
ThatтАЩs my hope. Could fail spectacularly but got to try something
Right. I meant to write "waiving."
It's an interesting procedural rule which the minority is very much motivated to have in place. I have mixed feelings about it. Bottom line, it seems like we should be a nation of majority rule - not requiring "super" majority rule.
I'd favor a rule where nothing became law without 10% of the opposing party's support. Laws aren't meant to be willy-nilly easy. They also are not meant to give one party, minority or majority, totalitarian rule which Mitch essentially has had for 20 years or so.
Disagree with this but understand your sentiment. I think the problem is that we donтАЩt do enough. I also think 10% is misleading. If you got to Wyoming senators that would represent like .1% of the population. If you got to California that is >10% of the population. Hard to make the math work with the population
Get rid of it. Make politicians put their money where their mouth is. If republicans pass crazy shit, let them suffer at the ballot box. Same goes for democrats. IтАЩve come the conclusion that a lot of our problems are caused by inaction not too much legislation.
I hear ya. Sometimes I wish we'd just go with a parliamentarian system. (Yeah, I know, grass is always greener.)
There is a, gulp, *compromise* approach: make the filibuster Jimmy Stewart again! Perhaps if conducting a filibuster were sufficiently painful, it would actually fulfil its promise as suggested by its supporters.
Yeah, but Ted "Green Eggs and Ham" Cruz is still there. Painful for most of the country, but not for him.