# The filibuster **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-filibuster/626633 **Category:** Great Debates **Created:** [June 28, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-filibuster/626633 "2012-06-28T22:28:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 17
### Author: ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker) #### Post date: [June 29, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-filibuster/626633/17 "2012-06-29T19:30:06Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > But I guess my feeling is that the filibuster as an exceptional check or balance is different from the filibuster as a routine response to anything. Which sounds a lot like “it’s OK when the democrats used to do it, but bad when the republicans do it now”. Which is what makes me question my belief enough to start this thread, but doesn’t make it automatically invalid or incorrect. Assuming you don’t wish to enshrine “Democrats get a filibuster and Republcians don’t” into law, whatever rules you make you must be able to live with no matter who’s in charge. My tone may have come as a reaction to the New York Times, which has openly switched back and forth between saying it’s “most important that a large minority of senators has a limited right of veto” and saying “We have supported eliminating the filibuster for judicial and executive nominees. Making other filibusters harder would be good for both parties. If Mr. Reid remains majority leader in January, he should lead the reform.” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-filibuster/626633)._