Filibuster: Conservatives Should Not Advocate Nuke-the-Filibuster

In the Wall Street Journal, F. H. Buckley makes the conservative case for dismantling the legislative filibuster. Though Senate procedure may stop bad laws from being implemented, argues Buckley, it also renders a GOP Congress incapable of reversing noxious policies already in existence:

The most obvious problem with this theoretical proposition is that, no, I can’t imagine such a thing. Judges and policies are not the same. It is exceedingly improbable that the Republicans will have either the resolve or the votes to overturn any “wasteful interest-group bargains” or any major legislation now embedded in our system.

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In the Wall Street Journal, F. H. Buckley makes the conservative case for dismantling the legislative filibuster. Though Senate procedure may stop bad laws from being implemented, argues Buckley, it also renders a GOP Congress incapable of reversing noxious policies already in existence:

The most obvious problem with this theoretical proposition is that, no, I can’t imagine such a thing. Judges and policies are not the same. It is exceedingly improbable that the Republicans will have either the resolve or the votes to overturn any “wasteful interest-group bargains” or any major legislation now embedded in our system.