Dems' filibuster conundrum: It's not just Manchin and Sinema

By artappraiser on Mon, 01/10/2022 - 7:36pm |

A Dem senator from Arizona is still not sold on changes to the filibuster. And it's not Sinema.
Kelly: “if there’s a real proposal, I’ll take a look at it and evaluate it based on what’s in the best interests of the country,”
⁦@marianne_levine⁩ https://t.co/zWwYKoON4t
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) January 11, 2022

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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/10/democrats-filibuster-vote-526863

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Schumer doesn’t start the week with 48 ironclad votes for filibuster change. Plenty of nuance and some reluctance in the caucus.

Sen. Coons, who helped organize a bipartisan letter backing up the legislative filibuster in 2017, said he’s “seriously weighing” what to do.
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) January 11, 2022

Oh, and Manchin hasn’t moved

“Chuck has tried to be as fair as he could be this whole year. We did some great things, now they’re coming down to crunch time. And I understand the position they’re in …But I’ve been very clear where I am. So hopefully they respect that too.”
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) January 11, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 01/10/2022 - 7:40pm

Political scientist Matt Grossman on historical reality of how things work out for both parties

But wishing for or needing something to change should not be the same as predicting it. They have a bare majority with holdouts & no rules changing consensus. The 2 options are still bipartisan bills & reconciliation on the holdouts’ terms, which are the normal options.
— Matt Grossmann (@MattGrossmann) January 14, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 9:53pm

and Yglesias saying the same thing in short:

Honestly "both parties struggle to make large policy shifts in the face of a closely divided and change-averse electorate" is a very banal take but seems pretty accurate.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 14, 2022

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 9:55pm

Prediction from June: Top adviser to Dem megadonor privately blasts party’s prioritization of voting rights bill

The party was wasting precious time and capital on an item that can’t pass, argued Reid Hoffman’s right hand man.

By Alex Thompson @ Politico.com, June 22

The top political adviser to one of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors privately urged fellow Democrats last week to abandon the push around federal voting rights legislation in favor of legislative items with better chances of passage.

Dmitri Mehlhorn, a key confidant to Democratic funder Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn, made the case to advisers to other Democratic megadonors that the attention being placed by activists and lawmakers on the For the People Act was setting the party up for failure, according to people involved in the discussions and emails obtained by POLITICO [....]

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 10:34pm

Dems' filibuster conundrum: It's not just Manchin and Sinema

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