Thank you Repugs: "more filibusters since 2006 than betwen 1920 and 1980"

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Fixing the Filibuster: Three Senators Offer a Solution

Four hundred and twenty bills passed the House in the last session of Congress but died in the Senate, including the Employee Free Choice Act, cap-and-trade, pay equity for women, an audit of the BP claims fund, a plethora of critical jobs bills, and the repeal of "don’t ask, don’t tell.”

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/149212

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I can't find how many filibusters 2006-2010 were out-of-power Repug vs in-power Dems, but what's your guess? :)

In the ongoing series that Repugs and Dems are NOT two sides of the same coin, there is NO equivalence. The Senate Repugs are miles further deeper in paralyzing, nihilistic, smash-mouth obstructionism.

[Wild Cobra]

And it's a good thing they got stopped.

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There will continue to be plenty of Repug filibusters as long as the Repugs don't control the WH and Congress.

[fyatuk]

Cloture votes are a bad thing to use to measure filibusters. The Senate over the past couple decades has started to use them more and more procedurally just to say "we're done talking about this."

There will continue to be plenty of Republican filibusters as long as the Democrats ignore their recommendations when drafting bills. Won't be as many the next 2 years since the Senate shouldn't be getting any bills that don't have Republican appeal. In fact, we should get quite a bit of bipartisan bills for the first time since 2001.

Honestly, it's heavily Bush's fault since he created this disaster of a Chasm Aisle, but the minority is always going to filibuster when there's zero compromise inside a bill. The Dems were doing the same thing in 2004 and 2005 when the Republicans weren't compromising.

[CosmicCowboy]

A lot of flowery names for bad bullshit bills. The "Employee Free Choice" act, as an example, was about anything BUT free choice.

[Wild Cobra]

One more thing misleading about the title. The rules have changes. It used to be a senator had to be standing and speaking the entire time of the filibuster.

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The rules changed when?
Who proposed the rules?
Who has abused the rules the most?

The Repugs don't have to filibuster whatever the rules, they just threaten to filibuster, and the Dems cave.

Magic Negro compromised plenty on health, and the Repugs kept moving the goal posts, and in the end, didn't support the reform after all.

As always, the Repugs abuse the filibuster innocently, in best of good faith, because it's all the Dems' fault.

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Typical Repug duplicity and grandstanding for their "enraged" base of VRWC-financed bubbas:

Durbin: The $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill Is ‘Exactly The Number’ McConnell Asked For

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/16/omnibus-hypocrisy/