Reply #36: Sorry, but you have NO FRIGGIN CLUE... [View All]

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NO, a democracy is NOT 'rule by the majority', at least not the one our founding fathers meant to create. The very notion of the SENATE is that it was to give the MINORITY a semblance of POWER.

I think you are failing to recognize that the filibuster is THE LAST REMAINING VESTIGE of A CHECK the Dems have on the ABSOLUTE POWER that the GOP so desperately craves and is pulling out all the stops to seize. Lose this power, the Dems might as pack up, go home, and FOREVER cede the control of this country to the radical right.

And yes, if the Dems had tried to do this 20 years ago, I would BLAST them for it.

This move would be as UN-AMERICAN as it gets. This is not some arcane 'Senate Procedural Rule', bud. Using the 'nuclear option', as it's been called, is WORSE in some ways than reinstituting slavery would be. It is only just short of ripping up the Constitution and declaring it null and VOID.

I'm sorry, but you're downplaying this situation dramatically. This is AN UNBELIEVABLY BRAZEN, UNCONSTITUTIONAL GRAB OF POWER by the 'Pukes. For what purpose(s) I can only speculate at this time...