Why Obama's Opinion Evolved On The Filibuster
February 17, 2015
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as posted by the channel"Barack Obama was a member of the Senate's Democratic minority when Republicans tried to eliminate the filibuster against judicial nominees in 2005. And he wasn't happy about it.
"If the right of free and open debate is taken away from the minority party, and the millions of Americans who asked us to be their voice, I fear that the already partisan atmosphere in Washington will be poisoned to the point where no one will be able to agree on anything," he said. "That doesn't serve anyone's best interests, and it certainly isn't what the patriots who founded this democracy had in mind."
Ten years later, from the vantage point of the White House, Obama's take on the filibuster has changed sharply. In an exclusive Vox interview, I [Vox] asked him what America needed to do to remain governable, given the deep divide between Democrats and Republicans."
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