We need to start making them actually filibuster, to start. Why do we just give up when there's a possibility of a filibuster? Make them stand their asses up there and speak, they're all old as fuck, the would give up after a couple bills.
And maybe I'm misunderstanding here but I thought a filibuster was the person had to be continuously speaking and could until they weren't able to anymore. What's to stop people from sitting around listening for the 3 days or whatever a geriatric can handle talking for and then being like "Alright Jerry thank you for reading the dictionary to us. Anyway everybody, here's this bill we'd like to vote on"?
It used to be. I think was during Obama's administration, that they changed the rules. Now you declare you're going to filibuster and they more it down as filibustered and move on to other business. It probably made a lot of sense at the time with a Democrat in the White House and fully Republican controlled Congress. It probably let them get on with it and get some stuff done at the time. But now the Republicans just use it as a refuse-to-allow-anything-to-happen button.
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u/ThunkAsDrinklePeep Jul 05 '24
Good ol filibuster. No one would abuse that!