wreak the place or mitch mcconnell threatening to bring everything to a halt. isn t everything broken and halted? the filibuster from the mitt romney s and joe manchins of the world is historically wrong. the filibuster isn t in the constitution and not a constitutional principle and not always been here and critically and i ve written about this. i wrote about this a year ago a lot. the issue that we have right now we have a procedual filibuster as opposed to a talking filibuster. back in the day when the filibuster was still doing its work of propping up segregation, you basically had to earn it. stand up and hold the floor and they change that rule. democrats in fact changed the rule to make it a legislative all you have to do is check a box and you don t have to earn it. i ve yet to hear a joe manchin or mitt romney explain to me why screw taking away the filibuster.