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Originally Posted by Danzig

one of my points is that it seems some only have an issue with the filibuster when it hamstrings their side.

For who? I've not seen that. The Dems stepped it up (misuing it) under the GOP, but certainly numerically clearly not to this extent, and they still tried to get changes to the Senate rules, and the GOP rebuffed it.

(Current filibuster rules are from 1975, and they are Senate parlimentary rules that can be easily changed).

The answer is to change the rules, and put them into effect in the future, like 2012, or 2014, when nobody knows for sure who will be in power in the Senate. That will be tried within the next year, I predict, and let's see who votes to obstruct that change.