Several major US airports - including Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International, Portland International, Seattle-Tacoma International, and three in New York - are refusing to play a video of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown.
They don’t and they do. They could blow up the filibuster for good, but they don’t want Democrats to be able to use the Senate fully with just 51 votes.
It’s a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle that, not only can no one agree what the picture is supposed to be of, but also a lot of folks want to burn some of the pieces - different pieces, for different reasons.
They don’t and they do. They could blow up the filibuster for good, but they don’t want Democrats to be able to use the Senate fully with just 51 votes.
If they or the democrats vote to blow up the filibuster, couldn’t they just filibuster the vote?
So, in your own words, they just don’t want to end the shutdown then. They absolutely could if they wanted to.
Yeah, I wasn’t exactly disagreeing.
I’m in the UK so appreciate the extra detail about how broken your political system is.
It’s a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle that, not only can no one agree what the picture is supposed to be of, but also a lot of folks want to burn some of the pieces - different pieces, for different reasons.