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Cloture is only required to end a filibuster.

Posted on: March 13, 2025 at 13:13:43 CT
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A filibuster is possible because the GOP has taken steps to protect its existence. You aren't aware of this, because if you were, you wouldn't have written your post.


"It would seem there isn’t much appetite for ditching the filibuster, especially in a Senate run by newly elected Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., a longtime protege of Senate Republican Leader and 60-vote threshold defender Mitch McConnell. Fellow McConnell stooge Texas Sen. John Cornyn recently told NBC News that there’s “unanimity” among Senate Republicans on preserving the filibuster — even if President-elect Trump again calls for senators to dump it. "


That paragraph came from this article:

https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/19/the-save-act-could-hit-filibuster-wall-in-new-republican-led-senate/

--- and while it's an article about different legislation, the paragraph on filibusters is relevant to the current situation.

The GOP *WANTS* sixty votes to pass law. They could get rid of filibusters but do not want to.

Spend more time with your hydrangeas. Maybe self-identifying as a gardener would better suit you.
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Will Dems blunder into the Schumer Shutdown? - Spanky KU - 3/13 09:50:50
     GOP owns this(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 3/13 11:26:56
          Still living in a fact-free world, son?(nm) - Wildcat KSU - 3/13 13:21:40
          How so? (nm) - Bosalphus KC - 3/13 12:41:34
          You are a dishonest pos partisan hack (nm) - hefeweizen MU - 3/13 11:57:48
          Right. Until something good happens and you will - GODZILLA MU - 3/13 11:28:59
     It's probably delusional that a party that controls - DC Jayhawk KU - 3/13 11:06:48
          Schumer literally threatened to shut it down - Bosalphus KC - 3/13 13:44:20
          only to you - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 11:09:38
               'enough senators' - DC Jayhawk KU - 3/13 12:51:45
                    you are showing great ignorance here - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 12:58:45
                         Cloture is only required to end a filibuster. - DC Jayhawk KU - 3/13 13:13:43
                              Do you know something Senate democrats don't? (nm) - Bosalphus KC - 3/13 13:50:21
                              I'm utterly aware of it and support the filibuster - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 13:20:15
                                   here - I guess a Jayhawk can't even check Wikepedia - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 13:22:58
               RE: only to you - sks MU - 3/13 11:13:36
                    as if that's anything abnormal when you Democrats - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 11:15:37
                         RE: as if that's anything abnormal when you Democrats - sks MU - 3/13 11:17:49
                              oh, sure, you're not a Democrat - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 11:22:19
                                   Not a Democrat or a Republican - sks MU - 3/13 11:32:59
                                        of course you aren't dear - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 11:55:46
     It would be funny if they do - Bosalphus KC - 3/13 09:57:59
     Hopefully - Columbian Gold MU - 3/13 09:57:21
          oh no one minds it - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 10:03:25
               Sounds like you mind it (nm) - Columbian Gold MU - 3/13 10:08:45
                    not at all - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 10:09:34
                         You think this is flaming? - Columbian Gold MU - 3/13 10:11:35
                              that's not what I said, sweetie - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 10:13:18
     you think so? - FootballRefugee MU - 3/13 09:52:57




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