*Lawrence about to discuss this:Mitch McConnell: The Filibuster Plays a Crucial Role in Our

[elleng]

Constitutional Order.
Democrats who want to change Senate rules for temporary political gain will rue the day, as they have before.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-senate-filibuster.html?

[Tiggeroshii]

1. What a dickweed

[alwaysinasnit]

2. You gotta admit that Moscow Mitch has a lot of chutzpah.

[elleng]

3. Yes he does.

SHORT discussion with Charlie Cook may be the end of it; hoping for more.

[BigmanPigman]

4. "Harry Reid: The Filibuster Is Suffocating the Will of the American People

to save our country’s future, Democrats must abolish this arcane Senate rule."

"The Senate today, after years of abusing an arcane procedural rule known as the filibuster, has become an unworkable legislative graveyard. Not part of the framers’ original vision, the modern filibuster was created in 1917. The recent use of the filibuster — an attempt by a minority of lawmakers to delay or block a vote on a bill or confirmation — has exploited this rule, forcing virtually all Senate business to require 60 of the 100 senators’ votes to proceed. This means a simple majority is not enough to advance even the most bipartisan legislation."

"Republicans over the past decade — knowing their policies are unpopular and that obstruction benefits them politically — perfected and increased the gratuitous use of the filibuster. Even routine Senate business is now subject to the filibuster and Republicans’ seeming obsession with gridlock and obstruction."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/opinion/harry-reid-filibuster.html

[abqtommy]

5. Moscow Mitch is subverting the Constitution and the will of the American people

and we're discussing the filibuster?