FILIBUSTER HAS ALWAYS BEEN USED TO JUSTIFY MURDER

The worst big city daily in the United States has a very good editorial reminding all of us that the filibuster has no nobility at all. Democrats used the filibuster for the better part of 100 years to keep lynching legal. It's here, at the LATimes. The filibuster has always been the first refuge of the scoundrel, and in the case of most of them they have been used to perpetuate injustice, not to prevent injustice.

The Senate filibuster allowed the Senate to fail its "minimum and most basic of federal responsibilities" to those who were "deprived of life, human dignity, and the constitutional protections accorded all citizens of the United States." As Mary Landrieu, the Louisiana Democrat who sponsored the resolution, said, the Senate was "uniquely culpable" for Washington's failure to protect U.S. citizens from a type of domestic terrorism often orchestrated by local authorities. What wasn't said is that the Senate was "uniquely culpable" because it cherished the filibuster — a procedural rule that enhances each member's individual power — over the Constitution. The Senate's failure to acknowledge the cause of its homicidal negligence robs its apology of much meaning or sincerity.

Hey, Hitler built great roads and even the LA Times can publish some truth once in a while. Kill the filibuster. Kill it.