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Great. Nine votes worth of concessions we didn't need.
by collint 17y ago
Great. Nine votes worth of concessions we didn't need.
- sethg 17y agoI hope that the arm-twisting it took to get up to 60 votes in the Senate will put more people’s attention on how broken the filibuster is as an institution. The Democrats passed up a golden opportunity, back when the Republicans were pushing for an “up-or-down vote” on Bush’s Supreme Court nominees, to say “hey, let’s get rid of the filibuster for everything”.