Senate's Capitol commission fail highlights Manchin's filibuster ignorance

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Eli Zupnick
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Must-read from @KevinMKruse "The Founding Fathers, who designed Congress to be run on simple majorities, would have seen the filibuster as a perversion of their vision for the Senate."

Opinion | A ‘filibuster’ was a plunderer or a pirate. Go figure.
The senator has it exactly backwards; it is the filibuster that is destroying our government, not the other way around.
msnbc.com
6:55 AM · May 28, 2021

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/manchin-doesn-t-how-filibuster-works-s-great-news-gop-n1268885

As Senate Republicans line up to block a bipartisan commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection, it seems increasingly likely that they will use the filibuster to prevent passage of the measure.

A “filibuster,” in the language of the day, was a plunderer or a pirate.

Democrats could do away with this resistance with a simple party-line vote to end the filibuster, but they have been hamstrung by the stubborn resistance of Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

Manchin, asked Thursday whether he might finally vote to end the filibuster if Republicans used it to block the commission, responded reflexively: "I'm not willing to destroy our government, no."

But the senator has it exactly backward — it is the filibuster that is destroying our government.

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[Bayard]

1. Wish someone would rub his nose in this

The filibuster has only been around since 1837--to keep Andrew Jackson from being censured.