“In recent times, Senators merely notify the Majority Leader of an intent to filibuster, and the Majority Leader delays further action unless he has sixty votes.”
Aaron Zelinsky: Save the Senate: Bring Back the Filibuster
WTF?
No, really: What. The. Fuck?
So the Republicans can be all political-minded and derail anything and everything the Democrats want to do, purely because it’s the Democrats doing it, by asking? They don’t actually have to do anything?
Is it any wonder the US government is the source of much eye-rolling from the rest of the world? Especially at the same time that they still treat their country like the world’s most succulent fruit, which they must protect from freeloaders from the outside.
My father used to be a local council member, but eventually left because he was sickened by the way that each party would always vote against anything proposed by their opponents regardless of its merits. This seems to me to be exactly what the Republicans have been doing lately. Don’t get me wrong— I’m sure the Democrats do the same thing, but the Republicans seem to be more uniformly frothy-mouthed and rhetorical about it, with accusations of communism or socialism should the word ‘free’ (as in beer) come up in debate.
Sure, you’re telling your taxpayers that you don’t care about them if they’re unhealthy or don’t have lots and lots of money, but the alternative would mean the impossible: approving of your opposition’s policies! Well, we can’t have that now, can we‽
