Advise and Consent
OK, how stupid are we? Or conversely, those paragons of intellect, the occupiers of Senate seats?Only a Democrat would think that a fillibuster was the constitutional definition of Advise and Consent. Going back to a slightly different spin on this, the up and down vote is Advise and Consent. However, the Senate, ever a collegial bunch along the lines of the former Politburo, put into place a non-parlimentary shenanigan to allow the minority to override the majority (the fillibuster).
It was never intended to destroy the true voting process of the entire senate and like a nuclear weapon, must be used with restraint. It is/was, in fact a privilige the Senate gave itself that is found no where else.
Along comes the current generation of Post Vietnam Democrats, who feel that advise/consent (or for that matter, democratic rule) means their way, or... their way. In statement that they might be wrong or in the minority or against the wishes of the majority of America/Americans is just proof of how right they are and how wrong everyone else is. This bunch would, in extremis, have no compunction about creating re-education camps if they could.
Back to the main point; having abused their self appointed privilige, astonishingly wiser heads are in the process of revoking it and putting the Senate back on a more parlimentary and constituional footing. Like spoiled children, the Dems are howling mad and in the process (in my opinion) further marginilizing themselves.
They can't really shut down the government since there are enough Republicans to make a quorum. However, they are stealing a tactic from the Texas Senate Democrats who sought to block re-districting by leaving the state (this is what is fueling the investigation of Delay in Texas). The question is how many Republicrats like McCain would side with the Dems.
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