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In making a case to abolish the filibuster for legislation (“that’s arguably where the
most damage has been done”), Steven Hill details recent Senate filibusters where Democrats
tried and failed to obtain the necessary 60 vote. This doesn’t include the cases where Senate
Democrats, under threat of a filibuster, didn’t even try to reach the 60 vote threshold.

“There is one other rarely discussed aspect to all this that illustrates why the Senate today,
far from being “’he most deliberative body in the world,’ is one afflicted by the most perverse
form of ‘minority rule.’ Because of the Senate’s distorted and malapportioned structure, in
which every state has two senators regardless of population … the 41 GOP senators who
block legislation often represent only about a third of the national population, since Republicans
disproportionately represent sparsely-populated states.”

Hill concludes that, in addition to the three ‘kill points’ (The president, House, and Senate)
created by the Constitution for rejecting federal legislation, “frequent filibuster abuse has
created a fourth kill point: the Senate minority. Since it’s necessary to run the gauntlet and
overcome all four kill points to enact a law, it’s no surprise that this has been an historically
unproductive Congress.”

Quoted from CICERO

I've been waiting for Steven Hill's analysis.TIC  Surprised that he believes slowing the ability for the Federal Government to pass MORE laws is "unproductive".  Stopping laws is VERY productive.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Yes if you happen to be a anarchist.  

Quoted from CICERO

Yes, because local and state laws aren't enough.  How would civilization go on without federal laws.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Yea how would local state laws govern minorities???
Jim Crow Laws that exclude blacks from health insurance plans... (They could have their OWN
plans, sorta separate but equal, remember?)

Look at many of the states that today are refusing to participate in ObamaCare... who suffers
the poor and minorities... just like always.

Quoted from CICERO

Ohhhh...Noooo...You went to the race card.  When all else fails.  It proves once again, that box is an authoritarian and wants to force his will on all people.  And he makes the outrageous assumption that he knows the desires of minorities and that ALL minorities support ObamaCare.

Remember the Fugitive Slave Act?  When your beloved federal government forced states to enforce the federal law?  Yeah....The good ole days, right box?  When people had RESPECT for federal decree.