- Jan 12, 2012
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A filibuster only does two things. It irritates the other side and shows that you really give a sh** even thought the rest of the world my not.
It can also be enough of an obstacle to getting other things done that the other side will give up one thing in order to move on. This was more the case in times past when a filibuster shut down all Senate business until it was resolved (whcih strikes me as a good thing--the less the Senate does, the better).