ilikeverin
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« on: March 27, 2017, 04:15:45 PM » |
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Good, the filibuster needs to be repealed anyway.
It most certainly does. It is a disaster, all of it. The problem is that it tends to cause the parties to have no accountability. If a party has a majority (the trifecta) and is cohesive, let it pass its agenda, and be held accountable. If the agenda which becomes law sucks, the party will be thrown out, and their junk repealed. No instead, we have the situation, where once in a blue moon, a party has the trifecta, and the 60 votes, and can unilaterally pass Obamacare, and then the darn thing cannot be repealed or revised when the other party gets in, without 60 votes, and the only way to deal with it, is play the reconciliation game, and have a flawed cf bill (requiring also that it be passed in three increments, with no guarantee all three will be passed to boot), so the darn line is the kissing cousin to a freaking Constitutional Amendment.
Not good. It's totally toxic to a healthy robust democratic process. Kill it!
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