What should Senate Dems do about the filibuster?

[yurbud]

It sounds like the current proposal is along the lines of requiring actual standing on the floor and yapping until the person yields or they get a cloture vote.

I would prefer just ending it altogether since the Republicans use it too much, and when in the minority, the Democrats don't seem to use it at all.

What should they do?

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	Require an actual, old-fashioned, marathon speech filibuster
	9 (90%)
	End it altogether
	1 (10%)
	Some other reform (please explain)
	0 (0%)
	Leave it alone (Democrats may use it some day...they were just keeping their powder very, very, very, very dry)
	0 (0%)
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[donco]

1. make them blab

until they drop.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. In front of the cameras and into the Congressional Record.

[doc03]

3. Sting McConnell up but his testicles if he has any..

[backscatter712]

4. I do like the idea of requiring an actual Mr. Smith Goes to Washington filibuster.

If the GOP's going to blockade the nation's business, they're gonna have to put on a spectacle and be made to explain why they're filibustering, rather than using a filibuster as a simple veto.

[backscatter712]

5. I'm also hearing talk about killing the Motion to Precede.

Remember, for each bill, the Repubs filibuster twice. First on the Motion to Proceed to a debate, then second on the debate itself.

Chop the motion to proceed, each bill that the Majority Leader puts on the agenda automatically gets debated. Then the Repubs would have to break out the dictionaries and catheters to block in the debate itself.