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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
But they don't have 60 in the senate so they can't actually get anything done. That's the thing about Obama in 08, he had the absolute most stacked deck you can have, he had the 60 seats. Ted Kennedy dying took it to 59 and killed everything they wanted to do. Filibuster sucks but we know the GOP will kill everything they can with it. It'll take a spectacular collapse by the GOP down the stretch to bring 60 into play. All she can really do is appointments, and she can get those through with no issue (straight up and down vote). Actual legislation won't happen though because in today's America it takes 60 votes to get anything done.
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Right now the problem is that you can just vote for Filibuster in the senate rather than actually have to suffer like you do in the house. This can be changed by the perciding officer of the senate to declare the current senate rule unconstitutional and that ruling being subject to an up and down vote.
By forcing people who want to filibuster to actually filibuster you would do a lot to fix the current problem as you couldn't just shut down the debate.