I didn’t call it “failure” like you claimed. You dodged my question rather than answering that. I’ll take that as a tacit admission that you were just making shit up when you said I was “calling it failure” in post #52. This is a recurring problem for you: claiming people said something that they didn’t say. It’s REALLY hard to believe anything you say when you make shit up like that. I’d like to take this opportunity to encourage you to stop doing it.
Now, as for your other questions:
Sometime in the last few decades. I don’t have a precise date, as I see it as more of a long-running escalation in partisanship by both sides.
I suspect most of them have voted against cloture, or would if they were in the minority when something came up. I’m not going to take the time to go research every single senator and confirm which votes they cast against cloture, but I’m comfortable with my understanding that it’s pretty much all of them.
I don’t know how many times and how many ways it can be explained but a Senate majority is insufficient to unilaterally do whatever one party wants, at least so long as the cloture threshold is 60 votes.
I never claimed “it’s out of sheer obstructionism”. Both sides obstruct when they’re in the minority. I think they both do so with the belief that they’re protecting or advancing some higher principle or greater good.
I don’t want government to “fail”. I want it to advance conservative goals and principles. The second best thing it can do is nothing. The worst thing it can do is advance liberal goals. And there’s a vast distance separating these last two. I don’t call it “failure” when they do a little bit of the first, a lot of the second, and none of the third.