If a series of miracles happens that allows the democratic party to flourish - President Newsome at his inauguration will say…
“I and my fellow Democratic congresspeople are unable to do anything the Supreme Court. Or ICE. Or DHS. Or healthcare. Or our broken federal healthcare institutions such as HHS, CDC, etc. Or federal science funding. Or NASA. We will not be abolishing the filibuster. The list of stuff we don’t do is depressing and very long. It goes on for 3 minutes. My aides timed it. But the important thing is I won! And our democracy persevered!”
But Newsome and his fellow Democratic congresspeople will take bold action on privatizing as much of the federal government as they can as they line their pockets for the good of the American People.
IIRC the filibuster was effectively overturned by a procedural change this session.
I haven’t been following the filibuster stuff at all but I think the GOP kept it but created a carve out or two. I have no idea what the actual term for “carve out” is.
There must be a fancy term. This is congress after all.
Ninja edit. Despite knowing that google would only annoy me - I spent a few minutes googling. Some sites use the term “majoritarian exception”. I don’t know if that’s standardized or not.
If a series of miracles happens that allows the democratic party to flourish - President Newsome at his inauguration will say…
“I and my fellow Democratic congresspeople are unable to do anything the Supreme Court. Or ICE. Or DHS. Or healthcare. Or our broken federal healthcare institutions such as HHS, CDC, etc. Or federal science funding. Or NASA. We will not be abolishing the filibuster. The list of stuff we don’t do is depressing and very long. It goes on for 3 minutes. My aides timed it. But the important thing is I won! And our democracy persevered!”
But Newsome and his fellow Democratic congresspeople will take bold action on privatizing as much of the federal government as they can as they line their pockets for the good of the American People.
IIRC the filibuster was effectively overturned by a procedural change this session. Bringing it back is so on-brand that your bit is still a good one.
They can just make exceptions when they think it’s convenient, been doing that for quite a while now
I haven’t been following the filibuster stuff at all but I think the GOP kept it but created a carve out or two. I have no idea what the actual term for “carve out” is.
‘created an exception’?
There must be a fancy term. This is congress after all.
Ninja edit. Despite knowing that google would only annoy me - I spent a few minutes googling. Some sites use the term “majoritarian exception”. I don’t know if that’s standardized or not.