And the rules won't change because most of the Senate loves that someone else can halt things, take the heat, and then they won't have to deal with unpopular decisions.

Not in this case, but they're literally willing to force the military fuck over career professionals so that they can keep their cushy plausible deniability.

Well no, they could hold a cloture vote any time on every nominee. They need 67 senators to vote to end the filibuster.

They haven’t forced cloture because enough republicans support him in the background and wouldn’t vote for it.

So many self-serving rules. And honestly, if we held any of them accountable to their campaign promises we might actually have a functioning congress. But here we are.

This is the real problem, and it's infuriating. Not only because of the way it stops the Senate from doing so many things, but because so many people now believe it's how the filibuster had always worked. And so people hate it.

But, in fact, the filibuster, in its original form, is a powerful tool the minority can use to make its voice heard and perhaps even effect change. It needs to come back - make Tuberville stand up and talk for hours on end for each of these appointees he opposes. Make McTurtle totter to center stage and wheeze for as long as he can the next time he wants to block a Democrat President's Supreme Court Judge.

I'll bring the popcorn.

Notice that the comment you're responding to specifically qualifies him as the dumbest person in the Senate. There's a lot more competition for "dumbest member of Congress" in the house. Boebert is still a representative (for now at least), after all.

Currently living in Alabama, I really wish there wasn’t quite so much truth in this statement.