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Interesting thread on "horizontal accountability" ...
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)PsychoBabble
(837 posts)It was describing a structure to use to think about the problem, and the impact of political will, and our willingness to ascribe to "norms."
Egnever
(21,506 posts)I think the filibusterer causes complete dysfunction in our government and has for decades now. I only wish Harry had the balls to do it while we could have gotten garland in.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)factor in. Reid used the "nuclear option" to get many Obama judicial appointees approved that Republicans were blocking
using the filibuster when they were the minority party.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)It would not have changed garlands nomination.
JHB
(37,163 posts)It's conservative lockstep tactics that made supermajorities necessary. It was their goal to hamstring everything except when they have a shot at advancing their agenda. They punished anyone who broke ranks in order to engage in that horizontal accountability.
The "60 vote requirement" wasn't really a requirement, it was something conservative zealots chose.