There should be a platform exemption for the fillibuster

[insanity]

Parties should be allowed to pass laws they significantly campaigned on without objection from the minority. If the American people are willing to go to the polls and support one platform over another, than that platform should be subject to a straight up or down vote. Nominees and projects outside of that scope should be subject to fillibuster still, but we cannot succumb to being a government run by supermajority. Every other Congress in history understood this.

[obxhead]

1. It should just be done away with period.

It's long past time to end the gridlock.

[tritsofme]

2. Isn't privatizing Social Security on the Republican platform?

It's times like 2005 when you are glad such a rule doesn't exist.

[insanity]

4. Elections have consequences

If they made one of their pivotal arguments for their election on privatizing social security, they should be allowed an up or down vote however stupid their idea is. They do it that way in Parliamentary democracies and it makes sense here.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

3. I think the Harkin bill is the way to go, it's meant to extend debate than kill bills.