24 October 2021

Lucy is Holding the Football

And Joe Biden is giving indications that he wants to reform or repeal the filibuster.

I don't believe that anything would happen, because there are simply too many Democrats in the Senate who really don't want meaningful change.  **Cough** Chuck Schumer **Cough** 

There are lots of careerist politicos who want an excuse to fail:

Joe Biden has given the strongest indication yet that he is willing to end or whittle down the Senate filibuster as a means of overcoming Republican intransigence and moving ahead with reforms to voting rights, the debt ceiling and possibly more.

Speaking in Baltimore a day after Senate Republicans yet again blocked legislation designed to secure access to the ballot box for all Americans, Biden expressed mounting frustration at the filibuster, which effectively gives the conservative minority a stranglehold over large swaths of policy.

“We’re going to have to move to the point where we fundamentally alter the filibuster,” the president said.

At a CNN town hall in Baltimore on Thursday night, Biden hedged on how far any reform would go. “That remains to be seen,” he said, “in terms of fundamentally altering it or whether or not we just end the filibuster straight up.”

Not gonna happen.

The filibuster, created by mistake by Aaron Burr, has the support of too many people who have a vested interest in supporting gridlock. 

Biden's support for change will not change that.

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