Senate Democratic leaders are going to try one more time to vote on the nearly-inert remnants of the Build Back Better bill, while also trying to scrap the filibuster in order to pass a sweeping revision of voting laws.
Both efforts are going to fail. Senator Chuck Schumer knows that, the White House knows that…but on they go. It’s always best to stand back when a major political party is determined to fail. Here, it’s also worth pushing back against the accepted wisdom on the left that Senate procedures like the filibuster are an existential threat to our civic life. The deeply inconvenient truth is that legislating is supposed to be difficult — by design. But it goes much deeper: Read More…
