re: It's time for McConnell to go nuclear on the filibuster rule

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the filibuster wasn't part of the founding.

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I understand it is not in the language of the founding documents.

But it was instituted as the 'way the Senate should operate' by patriotic founders.

Same way the Declaration of Independence doesn't have force of law either. But it forms a very big statement of "who we are."