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2016 Postmortem

MannyGoldstein

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1. I hope it will happen, but

Reply to Tx4obama (Original post)

Thu Nov 29, 2012, 10:59 PM

Nov 2012

I suspect that senior Democrats will ultimately see it as too partisan. And anyway, they handily won the last election even with the obstruction, so I suspect they don't see it as a particularly bad thing.

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If you didn't support filibuster reform before, you will after reading this [View all] Tx4obama Nov 2012 OP

I hope it will happen, but MannyGoldstein Nov 2012 #1

I disagree. I believe the filibuster rule will be changed the first day of the 113th Congress Tx4obama Nov 2012 #2

harry is waffling and offering weak reform. repubs will block block block nt msongs Nov 2012 #3

So what do we do? Cali_Democrat Nov 2012 #5

They can't Jeff In Milwaukee Nov 2012 #7

Prediction... world wide wally Nov 2012 #4

Email and call Senators Feinstein and Kerry davidpdx Nov 2012 #6

The filibuster rules MUST change. It was not intended to be used the current way and the reason Filibuster Harry Nov 2012 #8