Sen. Olympia Snowe ends run for re-election

[quakerboy]

115. Or even just "they say they will fillibuster the bill, so we won't even bring it for a vote"

That's the ones that really got me. They were killing bills purely by threatening to filibuster, not even having to just say i filibuster.

I could probably live with a return to the live, continuous talking filibuster. But I would prefer a majority rules vote system, no super majorities or any of that. Due to the way that the senate mis-represents the nation (2 senators from Wyoming, 2 from California, If you could get all the small population states to go one way or the other, you could in theory get a senate majority with the votes of something like 10% of the population, I figured the exact number a while back, but Ive since lost it.) The senate is already a fairly anti-democratic system. The filibuster makes it even worse. I would prefer to see it gone entirely.