re: #773 BryanS

Heh, but I also think we can agree ol’ Strom isn’t around anymore.

The filibuster, though, is not really a bad thing. It prevents wild see-saws in policies. Imagine what would have happened under the Bush presidency—we would have had mandatory daily prayers, privatized social security, privatized medicare, abolishment of the EPA, etc. Then the Dems would have voted everything back to where it was and then some.

True enough I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, I’m just saying that overly rampant abuse of it is. I don’t think that it should be considered business as usual to make everything that happens in the senate need 60 votes to go forward, if the other side feels that majority rule isn’t an acceptable outcome in the situation, they should be more than willing to stand up and scream about why that is at the top of their lungs on live television…