God forbid we should have majority rule in the senate

What The Dems’ Filibuster Reform Effort Would Really Do

Neither side has so much confidence in democracy they want to deny the minority in the body the right and the power to veto anything that displeases them enough to take the trouble.

And anything at all displeases the Republicans enough to take the trouble.

“The Republican leader thinks things are going well here. He’s in a distinct minority because things aren’t going well around here,” Reid said. “Lyndon Johnson: one cloture. Reid: 386. That says it all.”

And maybe Reid gets it, really.

Maybe his reform is less than half-assed because he knows there are too many anti-majoritarians in his own party for him to be able to abolish the filibuster even by attempting a rule change with 51 votes.