[cynwoody]

Other than comparatively minor issues like Keystone pipeline or the Medical Equipment Tax I cannot think of a thing on that list of 11 that the two sides would work together on that could generate a filibuster-proof majority. Or anything not on the list of 11. Can you?

The point isn't to make law. That will have to wait for 2017, assuming we win.

The point is to make noise. A GOP Senate can do that, even if bills are filibustered or passed only to be vetoed.

Harry Reid has simply been sitting on bills, so not only does Obama not have to veto anything, but Harry's Democrat colleagues, some of whom represent red or purple states, are spared from casting embarrassing votes.

[DoodleDawg]

The point isn't to make law. That will have to wait for 2017, assuming we win.

And how will that change anything? Will the filibuster magically go away or the Democrats change their stripes?

Harry Reid has simply been sitting on bills, so not only does Obama not have to veto anything, but Harry's Democrat colleagues, some of whom represent red or purple states, are spared from casting embarrassing votes.

So Reid can't sit on things anymore to prevent bills from making it to the floor. So they switch to plan B. Filibustering everything in sight doesn't seem to have hurt the GOP. How will it hurt the Democrats?