Robert Byrd: “Never, ever, ever get rid of the filibuster. It is the guardian of minority rights and an essential engine for…”

The Framers recognized that a minority can be right and that a majority can be wrong.

Makes the majority leader and the majority party the subject of the minority, subject to the control and the will of the minority.

Senator Robert Byrd, the expert extraordinary on the Senate, spent weeks on end trying to figure out a way that you could assure the passage of bills that pertained to the budget and not destroy the filibuster rule.

Never, in my view, had America been led by such a dangerous head of state.