Posted on 01/25/2018 6:45:06 AM PST by Liberty7732
With Trump in the White House, this is a load of crap! We have, perhaps the last opportunity to save our country, and the filibuster is a detriment to that effort. Besides, when and if the RATs take charge again, it’s gone anyway, so we should make the first move with the hope that the legislative process can undo what the RATs have done to such and extent that it will take them decades to “put things back” should they ever get the chance.
Keep the filibuster. Just require the senators to actually do a filibuster.
“Gridlock is the greatest protection to our personal liberties.” - Judge Clarence Thomas
GRIDLOCK is not the same as SEDITION. America is in the midst of a COUP.
And if Rs lose the Senate (which they will eventually) then we’ve set the table for activist progressive giveaways which become impossible to undo, even with a majority.
Personally, I just don’t trust Congress. So the more they’re limited, the less trouble they can do.
Trump is doing great with his pen and appointments.
FACT - If/When/God Forbid Chuck Schemer becomes Majority Leader the filibuster will be eliminated.
FACT - Chuck Schumer pushed Harry Reid to eliminate filibuster on Judicial picks
Republicans might as well take advantage while they can.
Stupid, misleading article.
There is no filibuster. A real filibuster requires the senator to speak till he drops. Ask Jimmy Stewart.
Modern filibuster means just one stupid senator (a redundancy) can just threaten a filibuster, and the Republicans all cower and say ok, we’ll quit.
The democrats have perfected this, and the Stop-Trump forces thwart the will of the people.
Kill the filibuster. it’s 51 votes. If Mc Connell doesn’t do it now, Schumer will certainly do it next January.
Been saying this for years. Ridiculous that they can just claim or threaten a filibuster and it counts. Make them stand there 24 hours/day
Add me to the folks that would require an ACTUAL filibuster. Not a “virtual” one.
Two easy answers to the author : (1) Keeping the filìbuster won’t protect us because only people like him will observe it. (2) We’ll never get back to small government if the Democrats can block us when we are in power.
Back in Obama’s second term Senate Dems ended the filibuster for Federal judges and administration and agency employees.
At that time they were sure that a Republicans would not win the WH in their lifetimes.
Demographics made it impossible for a Republican to win the WH so they had no risk that Senate Republicans would use it to get their appointees through on 50 Senators, so they were sure.
Bad gamble for them.
Regardless there are not near 50 votes in a Senate to end it for laws so its a moot point.
Remove the 17th!!!!!
The State legislatures should have the right to determine their Senators. The people get to determine their representatives, the Legislature the Senate. The Founders knew what they were doing!!
I disagree. It’s not easy for one party to get control of both houses and the White House. If the people give them that power they should have a chance to enact their agenda, for better or worse. Once upon a time the opposition party would accept that the winner had a mandate and cooperate. Reagan got his tax cuts through without Republicans controlling the house because people agreed with that premise. Those days are over, at least for the Democrats. The pubs can’t continue to play by the old rules when the Democrats will do anything to obstruct and will ditch the filibuster if the situation is reversed.
Get rid of the filibuster right now. If the RATs get in again they will do it first thing.
Time is running out.
I may agree except IT’S ALREADY GONE. The next time Ds are in majority, the minority Rs will not be allowed to use it. By keeping it now, Rs are just screwing themselves (and us) and delaying the date when it is officially declared dead.
Reid fully ended the ideal that the minority should have a say - even if only in limited cases. Without both parties trying to live up to that ideal it’s stupid for one party to accept the filibuster.
Reid didn’t “partially remove” the filibuster because he thought it should be kept. He removed it in limited cases because he only NEEDED to remove it in limited cases at the time. And he hoped Rs would not take it the next step if they became majority (and he seems to have been right). But he fully intended for Ds to go the next step whenever they wanted.
It’s as dead as the concept of senators representing states. They can’t bring back the filibuster any more than I can get rid of the 17th amendment. And small-government conservatives are doubly screwed until they figure that out.
The problem is not the filibuster, the problem is the 17th Amendment and the liberals designed it to cause the problems we have today.
BUT, we have grown to be a big government country. We need changes to bring us back to a limited sized government. If we retain the filibuster then I believe the change that we need would be impossible.
Removing the filibuster is our best chance to return to limited government.
We have already seen an unresponsive central government which listens to the voice of big money contributors, rather than the voice of the citizenry.
This.
I humbly disagree.
EVERYTHING should come to a floor vote.
Make every one of the bastards take an on-the-record, yea or nay vote on EVERYTHING.
Than let the voters decide.
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