They can lower it back to 51 like before the no-show filibuster rules and keep it at 51, but that takes away a major tool used for corruption and obstruction. Or they can just not cause people’s insurance premiums to skyrocket next year.
They don’t and they do. They could blow up the filibuster for good, but they don’t want Democrats to be able to use the Senate fully with just 51 votes.
It’s a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle that, not only can no one agree what the picture is supposed to be of, but also a lot of folks want to burn some of the pieces - different pieces, for different reasons.
The democrats have literally no power with which to induce a shutdown. This is the work of republicans.
Need 60 votes in the senate and it’s 53 republicans in there atm
so Republicans need votes and to get votes you need policy so its still the Republicans fault for not courting policy to court votes
Agreed.
They can lower it back to 51 like before the no-show filibuster rules and keep it at 51, but that takes away a major tool used for corruption and obstruction. Or they can just not cause people’s insurance premiums to skyrocket next year.
No, they literally don’t.
They don’t and they do. They could blow up the filibuster for good, but they don’t want Democrats to be able to use the Senate fully with just 51 votes.
So, in your own words, they just don’t want to end the shutdown then. They absolutely could if they wanted to.
Yeah, I wasn’t exactly disagreeing.
I’m in the UK so appreciate the extra detail about how broken your political system is.
It’s a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle that, not only can no one agree what the picture is supposed to be of, but also a lot of folks want to burn some of the pieces - different pieces, for different reasons.
If they or the democrats vote to blow up the filibuster, couldn’t they just filibuster the vote?
They’d complain even if they had all of the votes.
No no no, they are still secretly in charge!!!