No filibuster reform. Again.

Once again the Senate has refused to reform the badly broken filibuster rules. As such the de facto requirement of 60 votes to pass ANYTHING in the Senate will remain because the minority party is willing to rampantly abuse the rule and filibuster every damn bill of any importance whatsoever. In the last congressional term, Republicans once again blew away the record for most uses of the filibuster.

The Senate is a broken institution. Between the filibuster and senate holds, especially the controversial secret holds, their rules are easily abused yet they refuse to change them. The Senate is where meaningful legislation goes to die.

Screw this system. It's a disaster for a variety of reasons. We'd be better off with a parliamentary system, but of course that will never happen.