This is enough and more than enough. Pass a rules change now to allow measures dealing with voting rights to bypass the filibuster. Also reform the filibuster for all other legislation not already exempted to restore the talking filibuster and require 41 votes at any time requested by a member to continue debate. This forces the mino…
This is enough and more than enough. Pass a rules change now to allow measures dealing with voting rights to bypass the filibuster. Also reform the filibuster for all other legislation not already exempted to restore the talking filibuster and require 41 votes at any time requested by a member to continue debate. This forces the minority to be in attendance and holding the floor with reasonable debate to block legislation.
Yes, there are ways to change the filibuster without deleting it, although I am in favor of that. Hopefully even Manchin can see this. He has to remain a Democrat, even if many are angry with him, or we will have Mitch as the Speaker.Not sure I would trust him as n Independent. If Angus King is ready to change the filibuster, there is some hope.
Mitch the Merciless is in the Senate. You can bet he’d never go backward, rub elbows with the peasants in the House. Therefore, fairly conclusive evidence …
This is enough and more than enough. Pass a rules change now to allow measures dealing with voting rights to bypass the filibuster. Also reform the filibuster for all other legislation not already exempted to restore the talking filibuster and require 41 votes at any time requested by a member to continue debate. This forces the minority to be in attendance and holding the floor with reasonable debate to block legislation.
No more minority rule for American democracy.
But the Trojan Horses won’t Allow it, it’s not minority so much as Manchin rule.
Manchin, Sinema, and 50 Republicans. And the problem is the electorate, not the politicians who exploit it.
Yes, there are ways to change the filibuster without deleting it, although I am in favor of that. Hopefully even Manchin can see this. He has to remain a Democrat, even if many are angry with him, or we will have Mitch as the Speaker.Not sure I would trust him as n Independent. If Angus King is ready to change the filibuster, there is some hope.
Mitch will never be Speaker.
I agree with you, SL Weston, but there is no evidentiary basis. Somehow I just know that he will never be Speaker.
Mitch the Merciless is in the Senate. You can bet he’d never go backward, rub elbows with the peasants in the House. Therefore, fairly conclusive evidence …
Mitch will never be Speaker.
You got me there. I wasn’t paying close attention. I was thinking McCarthy. This is what happens when I try to mix work with LFAA. 😉