Will the republican remove the filibuster?

[K lib]

I say yes hopefully Obama will use his veto

[LonePirate]

1. It is as good as gone.

[grahamhgreen]

2. They won't have too. Dems won't use it.

[W_HAMILTON]

3. Bingo. n/t

n/t

[grahamhgreen]

4. Course if we did, they'd kill it after our first use!

[W_HAMILTON]

5. Yep.

It's the reason why I started my thread asking if this means we'll get rid of Harry Reid. Harry Reid most certainly will not do to McConnell and the Republicans what they did to him. He needs to go. However many Senate seats we actually hold, it's almost like 8-10 seats less with Reid's weak and ineffectual leadership.

[kysrsoze]

6. Unfortunately, I think you're right.

[geek tragedy]

7. To what end? Obama will just veto .

And, 2016 they could lose it again.

[Recursion]

8. Reid did last year

And we may regret that soon.

[tritsofme]

9. Neither party will seriously contemplate serious filibuster changes unless

they control, the House and White House as well. The new Republican majority may even reverse Reid's nuclear option on nominees.

They gain nothing from having a bill die on Obama's desk as opposed to a filibuster, while losing their power to filibuster in the future.

[MFrohike]

10. I hope so

It's an anti-democratic relic that should have been put down in the 1940s, if not sooner.

[unblock]

11. they will not, because there's (a) no upside to removing it and (b) no downside to keeping it.

(a) no upside to removing it because they'll still have to negotiate with obama because of his veto power (which has value as a threat even when he doesn't actually use it).

(b) no downside to keeping it because if they really really cared to pass something (and figured they'd get past obama's veto) then they could always squeeze a few democratic votes, they're good at that crap.