Let the majority rule

By GottaLaff

A couple of letters to the editor from today's L.A. Times caught my eye (The blog title belongs to the Times.):

Re “What’s the deal?,” Editorial, Dec. 22

Your editorial rightly finds fault with the legislative process and implicitly with senators who extracted special deals as the price of their vote for healthcare reform.

But who is really at fault? Republicans, who offer no real alternative but insist on filibustering ad nauseam to make their political points. Without their filibuster, none of the Democratic senators would have had the power to extract those special deals.

With the Republicans' united front of "No," Congress has become as unwieldy as the California Legislature. The filibuster has outlived its purpose. It should be discarded in the simple name of "majority rules."

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If Sens. McCain et. al are really upset about the special deals needed to get the 60th vote, and not just trying to score political points, all they have to do is to pledge to end the filibuster and let the majority rule.

Then the special deals will crumble like sand.