Vice President Biden ponders filibuster reform

By GottaLaff

Ponder, mull, study, appraise, consider:

"It's a useful tool, it is legitimate. But from my perspective, having served here, elected to the Senate seven times, I've never seen a time when it's become standard operating procedure," Biden said. "You want to get anything done, you have to have a supermajority.

Biden noted that filibusters are not called for in the Constitution and the threshold was changed once before – from 67 votes to 60 votes – when it was "recognized as increasingly difficult" to get bills passed. [...]

Biden said he asked his staff to "scrub" the issue, but said he doesn't have a view as to what a new supermajority should be.

If the Obstructionist Party hadn't abused the filibuster so badly, this wouldn't be a topic of conversation right now.

Three charts worth of proof. I rest my case.