What an excellent article! I’m impressed with McClintock’s thinking on this issue. The ‘Gentleman’s Filibuster,’ has always irked me.
However, the nuclear option was used very effectively by the Dems to pack the courts with Leftists. If we reinstituted the old fashioned filibuster now, wouldn’t it mean the Dems could block pretty much all of Trump’s judicial nominees?
Yes, of course, but at what cost? The point is that Senators (Jimmy Stewart notwithstanding) typically found the political cost of such malevolent and counterproductive grandstanding so outweighed any benefit that they seldom employed it--and McClintock is suggesting that same calculus will recur. He wants to call their bluff, which is usually a smart tactic when confronted by a bully.