'What she's saying,' wrote DavidNeiwert, 'is this: 'Let's make what's already the most undemocratic body in government positively anti-democratic by enshrining minority rule.''
"What she's saying," wrote one critic,"is this: 'Let's make what's already the most undemocratic body in government positively anti-democratic by enshrining minority rule.'"Right-wing Democratic Sen.
Journalist David Neiwert offered a progressive translation of Sinema's remarks:"What she's saying is this: 'Let's make what's already the most undemocratic body in government positively anti-democratic by enshrining minority rule.'" Contrary to Sinema's suggestion, the filibuster rule she wants to strengthen is not even mentioned in the U.S. Constitution—whose framers sought to avoid replicating the disastrous Articles of Confederation—and was created mistakenly in 1806 by then-Vice President Aaron Burr.
Only in recent decades have filibusters effectively created a regular supermajority threshold for routine legislation, with prior norms of restraint all but disappearing., is"weakening Congress—while creating the very supermajority requirement the founders clearly sought to avoid," the scholars warned."We fear it is also weakening democracy. The U.S.
By contrast, Adam Jentleson, executive director of the Battle Born Collective and Reid's former chief of staff, hashow"the filibuster turbocharges polarization and gridlock." As Jentleson put it earlier this year, the minority party uses the 60-vote rule to clog up the legislative process and then hits the campaign trail to accuse the majority party of being ineffective.
"While it is frustrating as a member of the minority in the United States Senate—and equally as frustrating in the majority, because you must have 60 votes to move forward, that frustration represents solely the short-term angst of not getting what you want," Sinema said Monday."We shouldn't get everything we want in the moment because later, upon cooler reflection, you recognize that it has probably gone too far.
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