Can Trump surprise us?

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If I'm not mistaken the Democrats started the filibuster elimination nonsense.

"On November 21, 2013, the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 52 to 48 to require only a majority vote to end a filibuster of all executive and judicial nominees, excluding Supreme Court nominees, rather than the three-fifths of votes previously required."

The Republicans then had a touche moment:

"On April 6, 2017, the Republican-controlled Senate voted 52 to 48 to require only a majority vote to end a filibuster of Supreme Court nominees."

1) restrictions on the filibuster started with budget reconciliation, which is what republicans use to cut taxes whenever they get into power. Like I said, the filibuster already doesn’t exist for preferred republicans legislation.

2) while I’m very happy to see any element of the filibuster removed the ideas that the Democrats ‘started it’ is revisionist nonsense. What happened was Republicans told Democrats they would filibuster any and all circuit nominees for the remainder of Obama’s term, regardless of qualifications. So, the choice was to never confirm another judge or to get rid of the filibuster.

Republicans asked for it and got what they asked for.