You’re right! This is so unfair! We need new rules! How about this: whenever Obama wants a bill passed, it only needs one vote to pass and no fillibuster is allowed. Whenever Obama opposses a bill, it needs 100 votes to pass the Senate. This seems fair!

–You better double-check your math Scott, at LEAST, 8 democrats who’d like to keep their jobs aren’t toeing the “company” line.

–In fact, even the “nuclear option” is in serious trouble of detonating.

“If we live in a democracy”

We dont, its a representative republic.

You are right sivis, but whose wishes are represented, the lobbys or the peoples?

It takes 60 votes in the senate to stop debate, not to pass a bill into law. They just don’t have the collective guts to tell someone who is talking to hear himself talk to sit down and shut up.

Constitutional Republic (…and to the Republic, for which it stands…)

“You are right sivis, but whose wishes are represented, the lobbys or the peoples?
— Lunar Chiroptera ”

Well it isnt the people. Both parties have their own set of Special INterests they are beholden too, and both parties care ONLY about power: Either remaining in power or regaining it.

Hey Scott, I think you missed civics class, among many other leftist! By the way, were you complaining when the Republicans were the Majority?

41 beats 59 the same way the Democrats threatened to fillibuster Bush’s Supreme Court nominees, which had never been done before in the history of out nation. What goes around comes around…and you gotta love it!

shtaven, so when does it stop? When do we start acting like serious grownups instead of whining 12 year olds? (and I include myself in the ‘we’)