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FLOP! New York Magazine Columnist Who HATED Filibusters Now Loves Them
Newsbusters ^ | March 21, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 03/22/2025 11:36:07 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

2021: Filibusters are evil and a hinderance to progress.

2025: Filibusters are a great way to stop the GOP agenda.

Both those sentiments sums up the wildly varying attitude of New York magazine columnist Ed Kilgore. Although he hated Senate filibusters in 2021 he now loves them as a way to slow down or halt Trump's legislative program. To get an idea of just how much Kilgore hated filibusters when the Democrats held the Senate, let us look look at his February 6, 2021 article, "What the Filibuster Has Cost America."

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Did Ed Kilgore somehow believe that no one had access to his filibuster article from four years ago?
1 posted on 03/22/2025 11:36:07 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Trump and the gop should propose to get rid of the filibuster rule now just to get the dems to expose their hypocrisy further.


2 posted on 03/22/2025 11:40:42 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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To: PJ-Comix

If it weren’t for double standa, some people wouldn’t have any standards at.


3 posted on 03/22/2025 12:00:14 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: PilotDave

I think we all know how this works.

Democrats were in favor of getting rid of the filibuster when it would have helped their agenda.

Now that they are no longer in charge, now the criteria have changed. Now they see the filibuster as a useful legislative tool to impede Trump.

The opinions of the filibuster change , depending which party is in control of the White House and Congress.


4 posted on 03/22/2025 12:02:36 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: PJ-Comix

No principles, only a “side”.


5 posted on 03/22/2025 12:25:58 PM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
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To: PJ-Comix

You act like Kilgore cares that he’s a hypocrite. He’s got the reverse Midas down pat: ex-New Republic, ex-Five Thirty Eight, ex-Progressive Policy Institute.


6 posted on 03/22/2025 12:29:21 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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Keep the filibuster; Republicans may not always be in the majority.

Also, keep it to honor the late Strom Thurmond and his fantastic 1957 solo filibuster lasting 24 hours and 18 minutes where he railed against cruel and unusual punishments while reading from the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville.

7 posted on 03/22/2025 1:28:02 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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Because that’s what liberals do


8 posted on 03/22/2025 1:41:56 PM PDT by albie (U)
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There’s no hypocrisy here. The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. When filibusters aid the revolution, they are wonderful; when filibusters counter the revolution, they are horrible.


9 posted on 03/22/2025 2:37:52 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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10 posted on 03/23/2025 7:23:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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