It's interesting, when Republicans tried to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, Nancy and Harry threatened to filibuster, and we heard not peep one from the pinhead brigade about it! In THAT case, it was perfectly okay, and how our system was supposed to work! The filibuster was celebrated by liberals because it kept us from being governed by a tyrant majority. It ensured the minority would have representation. Now, all of a sudden, we are to believe liberals want to do away with it? What makes me think this will fade into oblivion the first time a hot-topic liberal issue comes up for a vote? What liberals would LOVE, is a system that allows Democrats to filibuster, but not Republicans. Let's be honest about that!
Now, here is what I would like... let's keep the filibuster, but in the form the old filibuster used to be. In other words, if a filibuster is called, the congressmen have to remain on the floor until the end, none of this 'cheating' and rendering the filibuster as some kind of procedural technicality. By god, make them stay there filibustering day and night, like they used to do! If something invokes enough passion to filibuster, go balls to the wall with it, and put your stamina where your mouth is! Otherwise, drop it, have a vote and move on. The way they currently administer the filibuster rule, is ridiculous, and of course, never the way it was intended it to be used.
