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On their way out the door, two retiring democratic senators just weighed in on one of the most vital issues for how our government works or doesn't work. it's the filibuster problem. 60 votes super majority for routine senate business for the first time in u.s. history. chris dodd of connecticut addressed the filibuster problem on this network this morning, saying he doesn't want to fix the problem. nice. >> i'm totally opposed to the idea of changing the filibuster rules. i think that's foolish in my view. you can write all the rules you want, at the end of the day, if the chemistry isn't the...

Today a mainstream breakthrough on our broken senate. there's a "usa today" editorial today. the most mainstream of mainstream newspapers has run a blistering op-ed calling for democrats to solve the filibuster problem once and for all. columnist dwayne wickham blasts the complicity of the democratic majority describing how senate democrats have in his words eight more votes than they need to stop republicans from using the filibuster to effectively block the will of the majority. mr. wickham goes on to note that senate majority leader harry reid appears unwilling to kill the filibuster now ev...

It's ridiculous. nobody understands what it is. if they did they would go nuts instantly. you have a senate that's already so tilted toward small, rural, underpopulated states. we've got the north dakota has 600,000 people. that's as many as on my block but they get as many votes as california or new york does. then, plus, besides that, they have this new rule they've come up with that everything takes 60 votes, that you can't get the third deputy secretary of agriculture confirmed without 60 votes. it's completely nuts. >> well, we've been struggling on this show with how to talk about the fi...

Today there's a bit of a mainstream breakthrough on the issue of our broken senate. there's a "usa today" newspaper editorial, the most mainstream of mainstream newspapers has run a blistering op ed calling for democrats to solve the filibuster problem once and for all. dwayne whickam says democrats have eight more votes than they need to stop republicans from using the filibuster to effectively block the will of the majority. mr. whickam goes on to note that harry reid appears unwilling to kill the filibuster now even though republicans were quite happy to threaten to kill it five years ago. ...

Is so tilted toward small rural underpopulated states. we have the north dakota has 600,000 people, that's as many as on my block. but they get as many votes as california or new york does. besides that, they have this new rule they've come up with, that everything takes 60 votes, that you can't get the third deputy secretary of agriculture confirmed without 60 votes, it's completely nuts. >> we've been struggling on this show on how to talk about the filibuster problem. it's a boring sounding concept, and we're trying to come up with a way to communicate how important it is, and that is memor...