Once you open that Pandora's box, it was just a matter of time before a Senate leader who could not get his way on something moved to eliminate the filibuster for regular business as well, and that, simply put, would be the end of the United States.
Warning about the consequences of changing filibuster rules for judicial nominations.
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Get rid of the filibuster. It`s nothing. As Barack Obama said at John Lewis` funeral, it`s part of the leftovers from the days of slave owners. You have got to get rid of it. It`s very bad.
Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.
Barack Obama will go down as having the most successful Congress in the history of the country. Barack Obama changed the world.
The Senate is a place to kill things. It isn’t a place that you look to get things done.
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