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The Filibuster Fiasco

1.20.10
by Seth Rogovoy

People, get a grip.

Armageddon hasn't come -- yet.

The executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government are still wholly and overwhelmingly in the hands of the majority party in the United States -- the Democratic Party.

The president is a Democrat. The House of Representatives is majority-Democrat. And, despite Scott Brown's bizarre, upset victory in Massachusetts, the U.S. Senate is still overwhelmingly Democratic, with a whopping 59 to 41 majority.

The problem is not any lack of support for the Democratic agenda.

The problem is the mosquito-like annoyance of the Senate filibuster -- this archaic, self-imposed, non-Constitutional, procedural curiosity never intended to allow the tyranny of a minority, but which, through the unprecedented political polarization of our time, is being wielded by Republicans to hamstring the workings of government and the will of the people.

In essence, this outdated rule of debate procedure in the Senate allows the minority party to hijack and hold hostage the entire legislative process.

But it doesn't have to be that way.

All the Senate needs to do is revise the rules of debate. The filibuster is by no means sacrosanct, and isn't encoded into any law of the land. Nor does it follow any logic at a time when it is clearly being used as a political power tool to block legislative and executive progress.

Do away with the filibuster and return the U.S. Congress to the duly-elected majority party.




1/20/2010
Careful they might get something done. The main criticism the Republican party has of Obama is the fact that he hasn't flipped the switch to make everything great again. I think your filibuster observation is right on!!

Ken Green

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