vote for everything. i mean everything requires either a cloture vote for nominees or 60 votes nr anything substantive. that s not what the framers intended. they didn t intend a supermajority in the senate. let me give you math that i think you ll find surprising. if you add all the population together, you get 24% of the american people. so the situation we re in now is that 24% of the american people have effective veto over anything that 76% of the american people think is important public policy. i don t think that squares with democratic theory. senator king, when you talk with your colleagues on the democratic side of the aisle, and i m thinking about senator sinema and senator manchin, senators who have been reluck land to allow for any other new change to the filibuster rule even on issues like this, are
logical. let s listen to what angus king said tonight about the math of the senate now. and how 41 senators, in the senate, could be representing a tiny population blocking what the majority wants. you can guess 41 votes out of the current senate, which was enough to block any legislation. and if you take the stakes that those 41 senators wright present, add all the population together, you get 24% of the american people. so the situation we re in now, is that 24% of the american people have been effective veto over anything that 76% of the american people think is important public policy. i don t think that squares with democratic theory. senator merkley, i no longer really understand the reluctance of democratic senators who may, i guess
decades and it really ballooned under trump. so this is where we see the need for a congress to come and reassert itself. even though it may seem minor now because trump is out of office and it is more about a criminal issue, the fact that they can check his power, because he might have been beholden to foreign powers while he was president, is crucial to securing our democratic institution because really this is at the end of the day about small d democratic theory. bill kristol, peggy newnan at the wall street journal writes this about the january 6th commission. members of the republican leadership are making a huge error in how they are responding to the committee. they misunderstand their own position. they should be quietly trying to push away from the disaster by leaving it on mr. trump and his white house, not their own party. then she went on to criticize minority leader kevin mccarthy. is it too late, do you think, bill, for republicans to change course and, as peggy pu
decades and it really ballooned under trump. so this is where we see the need for a congress to come and reassert themselves. it might seem minor now because trump is out of office and it s more about a preliminary issue. the fact that they can check his power, because he might have been with beholden to foreign powers while he was president, it s crucial to securing our democratic institutions because, really, this is at the end of the day, about democratic theory. so bill, what penguin rights and the wall street journal about the january six commission, members of the republican leadership are making a huge error in how they are responding to the committee. they misunderstand their own position. they should be quietly trying to push away from the disaster by leaving it on mr. trump and his white house, not their party. and then she went on to criticize minority leader kevin mccarthy, is it too late, do you think bill, for republicans
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