It makes no sense to have the votes needed to carry that position and then give up in the interest of securing additional votes you don't need to placate the feelings of those who oppose your effort.
Eli Merchant | Posted 05.25.2011
The filibuster as it is presently practiced in the Senate requires a super majority to do anything, and thus replaces majority rule with minority rule -- a negation of democracy's core principle.
Zach Friend | Posted 05.25.2011
On the surface, there were 60 Democratic votes. But when you subtract two Independents, what existed was not 58 unilateral views or votes. A supermajority is a bloc, and this was never a bloc.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
Jon Stewart went off on Senate Democrats last night for failing to get their health care reform plan past the Senate Finance Committee despite having ...
Richard Greener | Posted 05.25.2011