Portland State University's student newspaper has an
essay about filibuster blowhards.
Blowing the Government to Hell.
Ever since the Reagan era, the favored Republican bullying tactic has been to knock the entire government as far to the right as possible. When Democrats get in power, they spend all their time cleaning up the mess; and when power shifts again, back to the right we go.
The filibuster was instituted to protect against the tyranny of the majority. This country is not made up of only right-wing extremists, and it only seems fair that people who are not complete fascists should have a say in who gets these powerful positions.
Republicans don't like that. Controlling two of the three branches of government (plus most of the media that they use to brainwash people into electing Republicans into those two branches) is not enough for them. They are making a power grab for the judiciary, where they only hold a 7-2 majority in the Supreme Court.
later on ...
But these bullies will not remain in power forever. They will find themselves in the minority sooner rather than later. If they push this through, they will have shot themselves in the foot by doing it.
You can tell they are aware of the public's disapproval of what they are doing because they have already dispatched their spin-doctors to change the name of this issue. Like the private accounts in the Social Security privatization scheme suddenly becoming "personal" accounts, last week the entire media, from the Oregonian to Fox News, was put on notice by partisan hacks that the "nuclear option" is now the "constitutional option."
This is one of the most concise summaries of the current situation that I've seen, including on this blog. kudos to counterpropoganda@dailyvanguard.com.