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Of course, my obvious question was – why didn’t the Senate take up filibuster reform in January 2009? The Republicans had already planned to be total obstructionists, and in fact Democrats had complained about it in 2008 – when they were already shattering filibuster records.

My guess is Democrats wanted to show country how bad Republicans are before debating on filibuster reform. GOP filibustered or tried to filibuster most of legislation except war spending bill. Senate needs to debate with both parties and GOP is a party of NO without debate.