.MaddowBlog: On the future of the Senate filibuster, fmr. President Obama changes the game
To be sure, this didn't come out of nowhere. For Obama, Republican procedural abuses were instrumental in stymieing some of his key priorities, especially in his first two years in the White House. There was some chatter in Democratic circles at the time about overhauling the chamber's rules and returning the Senate to a majority-rule institution.
This conversation is necessary, and by any fair measure, unavoidable. In recent years, many Senate leaders from both parties have seen the existing cloture rules through an awkward partisan lens: Democrats and Republicans have been willing to tolerate mandates for 60-vote supermajorities because they know it allows them to stop many of the other side's ambitions.
Sen. Chris Coons , for example, made no secret of his opposition to getting rid of legislative filibusters, right up until last month, when the Delaware Democrat began to hedge."I will not stand idly by for four years and watch the Biden administration's initiatives blocked at every turn,".
It's against this backdrop that Barack Obama -- almost certainly the most popular and powerful voice in national Democratic politics -- has decided to help tip the scales, adding his voice to the conversation.
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