Recently I read on these pages that forcing Senate repubs to actually filibuster would require democrats to maintain enough people 24x7 to make quorum calls and Senators might have to sleep on cots! Heaven forbid.
Dems must step up the urgency of doing the people's business! No more vacation. No more recesses. Keep the debate going in the senate. If the minority wants to filibuster every vote, LET THEM! American's will become repulsed if they actually have to listen to their lies in doses larger than sound bites.
Business as usual will not cut it. Business as usual means repubs will continue to control the debate, in the mainstream media and wherever people gather to talk about politics. We must go on offense. That is the way to change the debate. We are facing a determined opposition that isn't constrained by honesty, let alone nuance. That is also their weakness. Their fear mongering and lies wilt under scrutiny. Make them talk, until their baseness is laid plain!
The other day there were 290 bills pending in the senate. A record amount? The people's business is NOT being done. KEEP DEBATE IN THE SENATE GOING FROM NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER! or HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES!
Let repubs cry political theater, and cry and cry and cry. American's always slow down to see a train wreck--and what they will see is lying repubs with their pants on fire. The earned media will be incredible. Senate repubs are WILDLY DISLIKED! It's time to put the spotlight on their "ideas" and start controlling the debate. Dems have a majority, an historically large one at that. They control the agenda. It's time to take control of the debate!