Ezra Klein has a chart showing that the Republicans have already made a record number of filibusters even though we’re only half way through the Congressional term. To be clear, they are not on pace to set the record, they have already broken it.
From Ezra:
I rather liked Kevin Drum’s assessment of the situation when he termed the current Republican Congress the Party of Nyet, noting that they were so used to filibustering absolutely everything that came down the pike that they accidentally filibustered a bill they supported, and had to scramble off autopilot to save it.
All that said, this is happening in large part because the Democrats are allowing it. As I said in my previous post this is like a fighting game where the Republicans keep doing the exact same move over and over again and we don’t deploy the necessary countermeasures. Could the media’s coverage of this be much better? Is the Republican agenda bad for the country? Did they say we were cheap when we filibustered? Of course. But I’m not going to blame them for actually bothering to play the game when we aren’t.
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