I got this from Kevin Drum today. A Democratic Senator is mad at the Republicans for continuing to filibuster even after the deal reached early in the year. Jeff Merkley of Oregon says:
“Senate Republicans have demonstrated that they have absolutely no intention of ending their assault on the ability of the U.S. Senate to function,” Merkley told TPM, saying he had hoped the bipartisan rules change would ease gridlock. “Many of my colleagues are absolutely beside themselves with frustration, and that frustration is rapidly turning to fury.”Now I guess Merkley is one of the Good Guys, who wanted filibuster reform to mean something. But that any Democratic senator would be surprised that Republicans have continued to filibuster all business, including court nominees, just makes me want to scream.
As I've said before, Republicans are going to immediately change the filibuster rule as soon as they're in control of the Senate. They're not going to put up with Democrats gumming up their agenda just because it's tradition. And those oldtimer Democratic senators will howl in fury again; but they'll really have only themselves to blame. They're just criminally naive.
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