Caroline - The end of Democracy?

[PsychoBabble]

Interesting thread on "horizontal accountability" ...

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[PoliticAverse]

1. Was she for "horizontal accountability" when Republican's were blocking Obama's judicial picks?

[PsychoBabble]

3. The point wasn't about what Caroline was for in some earlier situation, or not for ...

It was describing a structure to use to think about the problem, and the impact of political will, and our willingness to ascribe to "norms."

[Egnever]

2. Dissagree

I think the filibusterer causes complete dysfunction in our government and has for decades now. I only wish Harry had the balls to do it while we could have gotten garland in.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Garland was nominated when Republicans controlled the Senate. The filibuster didn't

factor in. Reid used the "nuclear option" to get many Obama judicial appointees approved that Republicans were blocking
using the filibuster when they were the minority party.

[Egnever]

6. You are right of course

It would not have changed garlands nomination.

[JHB]

4. I'm inclined to think it's the other way around...

It's conservative lockstep tactics that made supermajorities necessary. It was their goal to hamstring everything except when they have a shot at advancing their agenda. They punished anyone who broke ranks in order to engage in that horizontal accountability.

The "60 vote requirement" wasn't really a requirement, it was something conservative zealots chose.