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Pirates of the Senate
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The Senate Is Not a Majoritarian Body
We are on the precipice of a constitutional crisis. We're about to step into the abyss. The audiologues in the senate when to turn the founding fathers, what the founding fathers called the cooling saucer of democracy, into a rubber stamp of dictatorship? It makes sense that most senators have a love hay relationship with the filibuster these days because whereas the filibuster was a tool of last resort for much of its history, it's become a tool of first resort. Both parties, when in the minority, have used it more and more to obstruct the majority from getting things done. But this is not healthy for the senate as an institution.
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