Democrats didn't kill the filibuster. Republicans might.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Filibuster reform is dead. Long live filibuster reform.

As expected, Democrats tried and failed on Wednesday night to change Senate rules in order to pass voting rights legislation with a simple majority. But it was a close call: Only Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) broke with their party to defeat the effort. If Dems had been able to swing just two more votes to their side, they could have broken the filibuster — at least on election issues.

That left some anti-filibuster observers expressing a sort of guarded optimism. "It's cold comfort, but from where we were in, say, 2012 or 2016, it's much more shocking that 48 Senate Democrats supported a rules change to pass voting rights than that two didn't," New York Times columnist Ezra Klein wrote on Twitter. "This isn't the sort of defeat that should discourage. This is the sort that should mobilize. Democrats don't need 10 or 20 more Senate seats to pass these bills. They need two. That's it."

Adam Jentleson, a former staffer for the late Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the author of Kill Switch, a history of the filibuster, was even bolder: "The filibuster is a dead man walking. The only remaining question is who wields the knife and to what end."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-didnt-kill-filibuster-republicans-170711920.html

[onecaliberal]

1. Republicans will do it ten minutes after they take power.

[unblock]

2. And in the 11th they will pass the enabling act

[in2herbs]

3. I know it's a long time away (2024) but Ds will be able to reduce that number to 1 because there

is not way Sin should/will get the D senator nomination and the next D better be vetted for his/her vote to abolish the filibuster.