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The filibuster is fine, in its original form. Manipulate the parliamentary process to push the date close to the end of session, then have some windbag with suf
by Spooky23 4y ago
The filibuster is fine, in its original form. Manipulate the parliamentary process to push the date close to the end of session, then have some windbag with sufficient endurance read the phone book for a few days.
The current version, where you declare yourself filibustered, is too cheap. In the old days, they just filibustered stuff like voting rights, not procedures for borrowing money to support the adopted budget.
- graeme 4y agoHow does that happen anyway. Why does the party with the majority allow a filibuster to happen without an actual speech?
- roywiggins 4y agoThe modern ("two-track") system was designed to be less disruptive to the Senate overall because it allows votes to happen on other, non-controversial bills while the filibuster is ongoing.
- graeme 4y agoThanks. Seems it was put in place in the 1970s after the filibuster of a civil rights bill. Still think they should make someone talk somewhere to keep the filibuster going. Cure seems worse than disease. Doubt they expected routine filibusters
- ticviking 4y agoA proper endurance filibuster is fine, the current version is just pretending
- duped 4y agoI think both are undemocratic, and doubly so since it's in the vestigial organ of our former slave-driven agrarian economy. There's no good reason to have the senate, let alone the filibuster and effective super majority required for legislation.