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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Wow. RT said she wants the Senate to get rid of the filibuster. I said I think they already basically did. You now call me stupid because “the Rs would have done it anyway?”
Look at your argument from the standpoint of a professor grading an answer? Because that is what I do when I read your posts.
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You're not stupid, you aren't articulating your point in a way I can understand it.
The Dems got rid of the filibuster for some reasons, not for others. If the rule had blocked the Republicans' tax package, they would have gotten rid of it then, but it didn't so they didn't have to. The filibuster is something like a norm, a sort of commitment to bipartisanship. Either party will get rid of it if it keeps them from doing something they care about.
