re: #231 Obdicut

It has changed in this congress. With the GOP as a minority. They are the ones who changed it. The number of filibusters had been gradually creeping up, but they have increased them by an order of magnitude. Just like they have blocked a record number of appointments— appointments of people to jobs that actually need to be done.

But you accuse the Democrats of playing procedural games. By asking that a bill be voted on.

It would have been better to bring the matter up as a stand-alone bill, instead of bundling everything together. Tactically, there just have to be pro-gay-rights Senators who are concerned about immigration, and pro-immigration Senators who don’t want to vote on DADT until the military has weighed in or until the upcoming November election is past.

The practice of bundling too many different things into one bill has the consequence that opponents of this, that, or the other unrelated measure get bundled into one mass of opposition, and the measure fails.

This thing should be brought up again, after the election, as a stand-alone measure. And it should pass.