Reply #31: As noted above, the burden of a "true" filibuster falls on the party opposing [View All]

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While a true filibuster does require the repubs to continuously talk on the floor, it also requires 50 Democrats to show up to listen continuously. Otherwise, there is a quorum call and everything stops until there is a quorum. So if your goal is to have the repubs endlessly talking on the floor, what you end up with is most of the Democrats tied up on the floor listening, and 40 plus repubs controlling the media message by giving interviews on faux, cnn, the networks etc. claiming how the Democrats won't compromise and giving other bogus arguments which will largely go unanswered.

True filibusters almost always were successful in killing bills or forcing them to be watered down, which is why the majority rarely if ever forces them to occur any more.