10-07-2016, 12:36 PM
(10-05-2016, 11:35 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: We need to limit the number of filibusters (five per Congress?), making their use gambles. I want those who use them to obstruct legislation as a specific tool for objectionable legislation and not as a tool for obstructing everything.
That's a good idea for a rule.
What concerns me is that if Trump is elected, or some other dufus Republican, and the Republicans retain the Senate, then the "nuclear option" is likely. Republicans may be fanatical enough to vote to overturn the filibuster if they get a majority, giving the president the power to pass whatever legislation (s)he wants.