No one cares about filibuster reform

[srican69]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/24/why-filibuster-reform-didnt-happen/?hpid=z1

* No one cares about filibuster reform. While that previous sentence is an exaggeration, it’s only a slight one. The people who do care about filibuster reform are liberal activists and liberal donors. They believe that the rules as they currently stand are a perversion of democracy and must be fundamentally altered. For the rest of the country, however, the filibuster barely registers — much less the attempts to reform it. Doubt it? Check out this 2010 Pew poll where just 26 percent of people knew it took 60 votes to break a filibuster. Given that lack of care/concern among the general public, it made little sense for Reid to risk poisoning the Senate well with bigger fights on sequestration and funding the government looming.

[annabanana]

1. Typical WaPo crap.

a poll from 2010? Seriously?

Beltway Babies sing this song,
poo-bah, poo-bah

Beltway bullshit all day long
Poo-bahs have their way!

[Angry Dragon]

2. and the media is mostly at fault in not informing the public

what is going on in this country
most of media today is entertainment news

[hedgehog]

3. If people realized what was going on behind the scenes, they would be enraged

The silent filibuster allows Republicans to pretend that it is the Democratic Party that hates bipartisan compromise!