Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
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Mar 26, 2021
BOOM: Fox's Peter Doocy just read to Jen Psaki the 2005 comments from Joe Biden in support of the filibuster and then asked if that meant Biden was supporting "the legacy of the Jim Crow era." //

Psaki’s rebuttal was that the filibuster has somehow been abused only in the last few years, with there being 5 times as many filibusters on average now than during the 1970s. //

Even more laughably, Psaki tried to claim that the last year’s frequent use of the filibuster is proof that it needs to go. Yet, she failed to mention that it was the Democrats who carried out every single one of those filibusters. //

Robal
10 hours ago edited
It was brought to everyone's attention that last year(2020)democrats used the filibuster 327 times, while Republicans used it only once. Doocey missed a great opportunity to make a fool out of Psaki. //

cafeblue32 indylawyer
2 hours ago edited
Nothing is like it was in 1970. Remeber all those 5000 page 2 trillion dollar legislative initiatives passed then? Me neither.

Laws today are made more or less like this: Lobbyists and donors meet with a few congress critters on key committees in private meetings, where agreements are made and said lobbyists and donors write the bills. Every Dem sees this window of opportunity to get all they can and so they overeach, as they always do. All across the party, pols facing re-election are in a hurry to pay back their constituency groups and donors while they can and cement a permanent majority based on dependent citizens and government provider. They submit as many non-related items they can shove into a "relief" bill. This is why they don't bother with budgets and operate on emergency spending bills, sequesters, XOs, and any other way they can wait until something is so chaotic the public demands relief.

Lobbyists write the 5000 page monstrosities with 9% of it going to its stated purpose, Congress votes on them without reading what's in them, and the moment it becomes law they gets busy building an entire new impenetrable bureaucracy built to service whatever unsolvable social condition they deem to be a sin. Lobbyists and donors get theirs, the p0licitans get their donations, and the party rewards them with reelection support. And now add in governing by XO and SCOTUS rulings as a replacement for legislating and here we are.

So, we have politicians who lie to get elected, who don't write laws, who don't read the ones they vote for, who place as much of their responsibility off onto the executive as they can, and all of it being run by Party apparatchiks and the elites in the donor and lobbying class, many of whom are former senatiors and congressmen who know how to skirt the rules.