Senate Democrats Lack Support to Reform Filibuster Rules

A quiet victory for minority rights, that.

I never supported the idea of ending the so called “nuclear option.” it has been aroud for decades. I its lifetime, it has well served its purpose--tempering the more excited passions of populism.

That is what the Senate was supposed to do in the first place. Senators were originally intended to be intellectual, elder statesmen types appointed by the state legislatures to keep the more prone to populist whims House in check.

The Seventeenth Amendment allowed for the popular election of Senators, so the filibuster is about the only throwback to the Founding Fathers’ original intent.

I hate to sound like an elitist, but I would advise repealing the Seventeenth Amendment today’s Senate is full of a bunch of rich ladies and gents who won statewide popularity contests, not any professional seal of approval. The sheer fact some root loop like Alvin Greene has the nomination for Senate from a major state party is enough to make one consider getting rid of popular elections for the office.