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Ending the Fillibuster
05-17-2012, 08:33 AM
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Ending the Fillibuster
Quote:Ezra Klein has a good post on a lawsuit brought by the advocacy group called Common Cause to abolish the filibuster.(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra...blog.html)

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Let’s do away with the filibuster and let the Senate work how the Founders intended, no matter who takes control in November. If the Republicans want to use their slim majority to abolish Social Security and Medicare, let them. They’ll never win another election again. Let’s do this.

If the Democrats keep the Senate, let’s actually start passing some real-life liberal policy. I’m on board.

I don’t expect that this law suit by Common Cause will succeed. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has shown signs recently that he is willing to change the filibuster rules, which the Senate can do at the beginning of the next session. Apparently Reid has had enough. It’s long past due.


http://somedisagree.com/2012/05/15/endin...ilibuster/

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Ending the Fillibuster #1 - azmouse - 05-17-2012, 08:33 AM
RE: Ending the Fillibuster #2 - sandnsea - 05-17-2012, 09:04 AM
RE: Ending the Fillibuster #3 - jaxx - 05-17-2012, 10:31 AM
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05-17-2012, 09:04 AM (This post was last modified: 05-17-2012 09:05 AM by sandnsea.)
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It seems to me that the beauty of our government is that the minority has rights and value, and that sometimes government should move slow enough for that one person to be heard. I would support removing all the filibuster rules and if one Senator can talk for days on end, let him. Nothing is so important that it should be pushed through without thorough debate. We've seen that with Iraq and the Patriot Act.
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05-17-2012, 10:31 AM
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The fillibuster has been used and abused by the GOP since President Obama was elected. It came from the days when the "gentlemen" of the Senate could be trusted to use it sparingly, those days are gone.

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