re: #67 darthstar

Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) said that Democrats are going to essentially kill the filibuster in the Senate by eliminating the Byrd Rule.

If he’s not talking out his ass, thank fucking God. My take is that the filibuster is and has always been the tool of the Confederate Party, which used to be bipartisan but is now exclusively GOP. And hopefully this is a stepping stone to outright killing it.

If anybody’s worried about what the GOP would do without the filibuster, we’ve already seen it. The filibuster doesn’t exist for judicial appointments and reconciliation (for them, tax cuts). Beyond that, they don’t care about governing. If it had ever benefitted them to get rid of the filibuster entirely, McConnell would have done it without a second thought.