Ending the filibuster is critical. And only Liz Warren supports ending it. [View all]

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https://crooked.com/articles/democrats-delusion-filibuster/


I admit I’m a Liz Warren fan girl.
But we will get ZERO done if we don’t end the filibuster. Republicans will rule via minority forever and block all Democratic action when they are in the minority. UNLESS we get to 51 Senate seats AND end the filibuster.

That’s why I’m for Warren for pres, and for Beto to run against Cornyn for Senate. Let’s do this!


(Ps Always read Brian Beutler)

In her speech announcing her candidacy earlier this month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) warned supporters against the temptation to turn the page. “Once [Trump’s] gone we can’t pretend that all of this never happened,” she said. By no coincidence, Warren is also one of the few candidates who hasn’t run scared from the idea of eliminating the filibuster. “Everything stays on the table. You keep it all on the table. Don’t take anything off the table.”

Her insight is that these objectives are related. You can’t defeat antidemocratic forces by cementing their minority rule, and there will thus be no meaningful reckoning for Trump so long as the filibuster remains in place.

The modern history of American politics is one in which tens of millions of voting-age Americans have been cheated out of their democratic choices. After the first election I was old enough to participate in, multiple partisan institutions brought their power to bear to deny the presidency to the candidate who won the most votes and who, in a fair counting, would have won the electoral college as well. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 brought about a mass forgetting of this theft, which in turn allowed President George W. Bush to implement disastrous economic and foreign policies while dodging most questions about how much responsibility his administration bore for not detecting and stopping the attacks. Bush, who should have never served a day in office, appointed two justices to the Supreme Court, both of whom have many years of service ahead of them.

In the eight years between Bush and Trump, under a Democratic president who won both of his elections with substantial popular majorities, Republicans turned the filibuster into a tool of nullification, used routine legislative deadlines and threats of harm to the population as means of extortion, and stole a Supreme Court seat.