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Peter T's avatar

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.

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knowltok's avatar

Yeah, but Ted "Green Eggs and Ham" Cruz is still there. Painful for most of the country, but not for him.

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