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WePurrsevere

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1. Link to the 'sky is falling' CNN article...
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 05:42 AM
Apr 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/31/politics/senate-nuclear-option/

It seems like the story, not just on CNN, is being framed to make it sound like it would be the Dems fault for using the ability to filibuster but it would be the Republicans fault if they kill the filibuster. They need to consider carefully that they'd be doing so for some time including for themselves when the Senate flips, as it will sooner or later.

If we are always afraid to use a filibuster because the majority might go 'nuclear' why the heck even have it at all? Put a constraint or two on it, for instance make whoever is doing the filibustering actually be there speaking (if I remember correctly they ditched that rule in one or both Houses?), but this nonsense about going nuclear needs to end as well. The minority has a right to be heard too and the filibuster is a way to do that.
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