These fake filibusters have to stop. The Democrats aren’t even making the Republicans go through with actual filibusters. A true filibuster requires endless speechifying. But the Dems are making it too easy because the Republicans don’t even have to go through with it, apparently.
It should NOT take 60 votes to pass legislation in the Senate.
Why can’t they use the so-called “nuclear option?”
I’ve always thought that filibustering was a sneaky tactic, using the letter of the law to defeat the spirit.
Except, of course, when I agree with the filibusterers ;-)
Nukes are like lawyers, each side has them but won’t use them; they f*ck everything up.
All political ribbing aside, I sense your frustration. I expect it is much the same as I felt when my party was in the majority doing insane things like passing the Medicare bill, pushing that insane Amnesty program, and spending money like Ted Kennedy out on a bender.
Who knows, maybe ’08 will be a little castor oil for our body politic. Lord knows both sides of the isle could do with a good cleaning out.