The mainstream media is so damn triggered by Sinema & Manchin including several other Blue Dog Dems that the left doesn't seem to understand half of the country does NOT want that election reform garbage.
The filibuster is not part of the process designed by the founders. It was an accidental creation that the Senate apparently found to be useful, although I think it has done more harm than good (in the way that efforts to sidestep it warp both the legislation and the process itself).
I see this claim all the time and it's obvious bunk. The filibuster was first used (that we're historically aware of) by Cato the Younger in the first century BC and used many times after in the Roman senate. Given their huge fetish for all things Roman even to the styling of federal buildings (and styling the US senate after the Roman senate), I fail to believe that the Founding Fathers, such as Aaron Burr who put the rule allowing for the filibuster in place, had no idea how that would work.
I don't claim that a concept similar to the filibuster did not exist prior to that time. They didn't copy everything the Romans did. The business of Congress is very well documented AFAIK so there should be ample documentation of whether the people at the time expressed an opinion/intention about the rule change (and it was a rule change) leading to something we would recognize as a filibuster. I admit I haven't read it personally but I have been told their expressed intentions point pretty clearly to other reasons and expectations. I don't really recall my source, much less put it on a pedestal, so I'm open to being told I was lied to if there's a good source for the contrary position. Have you any less speculative information that would point to that reason or expectation?
I am persuaded that the filibuster makes omnibus bullshit more pervasive, not less. When you need a supermajority to pass anything, you naturally look to mash as much stuff as you can together that has a simple majority of support in the hope that a supermajority of support will materialize from the amalgamation.
That was NOT the result of the filibuster. That was Dems trying to keep everything in the dark until after the vote.
Like Obamacare, which ain't getting repealed anytime soon.
that woman has been mentally unfit for a long time
Yet Feinstein's hell-bent on serving our her 5th full term in the United States Senate.
Weren't there articles a couple of years ago referencing her memory issues and a talk Schumer had with her about retiring?
Why didn't Feinstein call it quits in 2018 ?
She's also going senile too?
Dewine took the governor primary in a landslide. I was hoping he would lose.JD Vance narrowly won the OH GOP senate primary. Anyone’s better than that moron Josh Mandel though.
Vance wins Ohio Senate primary, handing Trump key victory
J.D. Vance was projected to win Ohio’s GOP Senate primary Tuesday, scoring the nomination after a brutal race and handing former President Trump a key victory after a late endorsement. The Associat…thehill.com
