Yup. It’s the part I hate most about the job - blowhards who go on and on about “proper procedure”
Huh. Didn’t realize Harry Reid blew up so much shit.
Well, at least someone learned something during this
The filibuster is just something corporate bootlicking democrats and republicans use as an excuse to not get shit done
What’s respect though: recognizing that our institutions are malleable so they can meet the moment or pretending that everything is set in stone?
lol. This is literally something Laura just addressed. We have prevented a lot of bad shit from becoming policy because of the filibuster.
We know what the proper procedure is. It’s in the Riddick’s Senate Procedure book.
Don’t pretend for a single moment that you’ve read a single page of that. None of us have, Cloakroom staff included.
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I might not have read it but I can reference it if needed.
So you haven’t. How do you even know it’s the arbiter of what’s proper then? It’s just a collection of precedents, and those can easily be overturned, just like how en bloc nominations are precedent now.
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Listening to these guys try to distinguish between the legislative and nomination filibuster is like listening to RFK trying to backtrack on his antivax views.
I agree with preserving it, but we should be more honest about why we hold onto the legislative filibuster.
Why do you guys need precedents like this
We have a rules committee on the house side and they decide what the rules are
Yup. My views exactly. We should preserve it because we’re not always in power, but it’s not like it’s some kind of gospel delivered from heaven.
You called it. Hazen just said that a lot of this is driven by our lack of a committee similarly empowered like the house rules committee.
Be careful what you wish for. The Senate might become even more dysfunctional if McConnell was setting all the rules.
Why mcconnell
He’s the Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee
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Jim isn’t nearly as good as he thinks at presenting. Did not do a good job explaining why we need to defend the filibuster.
What did he say to defend it? Not there because I have actual work to do
Vague allusions to “economics” and how the farm and transport bill would’ve turned out differently, but he didn’t give any specifics.
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