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Do you mark the start of it when the relublicans impeached clinton?
I ask cause i sort of do
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I think the beginning was the institution of the Hastert rule.
Hastert Rule - Wikipedia
Quite a lot of people want to blame Gingrich, but Gingrich didn't change the House rules. Hastert did. The impeachment of Bill Clinton was certainly ill advised. It had no chance at all of succeeding. Neither did the Democrats impeachment of Trump.
What the Hastert rule did was basically strip away the rights of the minority party to introduce and have floor votes on their legislation they wanted. But not to be outdone, The Democrats under then ex-Democratic senate majority leader Harry Reid did the same to the minority party in the senate with the first use of the nuclear option. I fully expect this to escalate even further if the Democrats gain full control of the presidency, senate and the house. The filibuster will be done away with completely. Thus avoiding any need to compromise or work with the party across the aisle.
It's my opinion that this is all about one party domination.There were many speakers prior to Hastert, including a stretch where the Democrats controlled the House for 40 straight years. But none of them invoked the majority of the majority rule. Each let the minority party introduce and have floor votes on their legislative proposals. In the senate, both parties with their previous leaders, Lott and Daschle, Mitchell and Dole, Byrd and Baker, none of them would have even thought about the nuclear option let alone use it. Isn't it ironic that the party so heavily involved in pushing minority rights would be the party to end minority rights in the senate.
What we need is come cooler heads in both parties leadership to get us out of this era of polarization and ultra high partisanship. But I don't think that is about to happen, if at all.
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