re: #178 Walter L. Newton

Maybe so, but for the tables to be turned, our philosophical positions would have to be flipped as well.

Democrats believe government can do good and so they want to grow it, so they want the senate to be able to pass new laws.

Conservatives believe the government can’t do good and so they want to shrink it/keep it the same size so they don’t want the senate to be able to pass new laws.

That’s a cookie cutter simplified version of it, but how else do you explain why there are so many more filibusters by republicans than democrats?

“In the 2007-08 session of Congress, Republicans forced 112 cloture votes, nearly doubling the Democrats’ record when they were in the minority.”
washingtonpost.com

So yeah if I were someone who believed in small government I would smile when I saw that it now took 60 out of a 100 people agreeing on anything to get something done….