Kick Harry Reid hard! Kick Harry Reid where it really hurts! Kick him now! Kick him each and every time the Republicans filibuster anything! Most of the people of this nation expect and deserve a U.S. Senate that functions. The Republicans have made the Senate dysfunctional by abusing the filibuster. Harry Reid had the opportunity to reform the filibuster. What he obviously lacked was the wisdom and/or the courage to do the job. His foolishness makes him as politically impotent as John Boehner. It does not matter what Mitch Mc Connell says, as long as Barak Obama is President, the Republicans will not let the Senate do the work we need to have done. Furthermore, it is downright delusional to think that the filibuster will be available in the future when the Democrats might want to prevent the Republicans from doing something outrageous. The Republicans have no qualms about changing any rule that seems inconvenient to them. They have already threatened to do away with the filibuster once, and the Democrats caved into the Republicans on that occasion. That is a large part of why we now have the worst U.S. Supreme Court in modern history. It is time for the Democrats to carry through with the threat the Republicans made back then. It is time to end the gridlock the GOP is imposing on us. It is time to acknowledge that the Republicans have destroyed the viability of the filibuster by turning it into a threat to majority rule rather than a safeguard of minority rights, and it is time to act in accordance with that acknowledgment. Get rid of the damn filibuster!
