Manchin has been talking about "reforming" the filibuster to make it more "painful" to use, but then you've got evil ass-clowns like Cotton pledging to do whatever is necessary to stop things like the voting rights act from getting passed under the proposed more "painful" conditions.


>I can't tell if it would pave the way for actual legislation to get passed
>and start moving things forward, or if it would just create a situation
>where we spasm violently back and forth between two polar extremes in which
>laws are constantly passed and then replaced every two to four years.

Given the current and likely future state of national politics, this is probably where it ends up going.

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