Your argument is really an argument that the Senate should not exist.
I’m open to the argument, but I don’t think I agree. In fact, I would like to return to the 2/3 of Senators present cloture rule, with the caveat that there would be no “announced” filibusters, that is, to keep the floor Senators would have to actually keep the floor.
The unlimited debate rule in the Senate obstructs democracy, which to me is an excellent outcome.
That’s one of the arguments McConnell uses to keep from doing anything. Fine. Let’s keep the same old rules and tie our hands and keep President Trump from enacting the agenda he was elected to enact. Then when the dems retake the Senate you can be damned sure they’ll finish what Harry started and ram THEIR agenda down our throats without us having done anything meaningful while we control both houses and the WH. Typical Republican bullshit. I don’t know why it bothers me, it’s what they’ve done all my f*cking adult life. I should be used to it by now!
The Senate with it’s current cast of characters probably shouldn’t exist. When you have a travesty like the “Gang of Eight”, why do you need the Senate? Eight boneheads telling the rest of them how it will be. Who needs that. Most of them are so old that they haven’t had a lucid thought in years. It’s a mess.