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i still find it insane to call the change a nuclear option, when it might just be the thing that finally stops the DC gridlock. It was never in the constitution that a law or an appointee requires 60 votes to pass the senate. & the filibuster has historically been used rarely, & this includes times in history just as hyperpartisan as today. Just this generation of politicians on both sides have turned it into a blockade of the majorities agenda. It needed to go.
Im mad mostly cause the dems shoulda done this on jan 21, 2009. Obamacare woulda been a much more progressive law, with a public option that woulda truly humbled the insurance companies. it was needing 60 votes that caused the law to get watered down to where nobody is happy.
hopefully in the following years, things can really start to change, & the news media might wake up & stop calling it a nuclear bomb, but instead a renaissance in legislative accomplishment.
Hopefully someone, whichever party it is, will start fixing things in DC.
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