Thread by @MattGlassman312

This. The downside of any talking filibuster is that it destroys your ability to dual-track. And then you are right back to hoping you can wait people out while the rest of your agenda withers. 1/

https://twitter.com/joshchafetz/status/1368585743640199177

Now maybe you can flip the pressure by forcing 41 to stay on the floor. That’s theoretically a lot easier than the impossible task of keeping the *majority* near the floor to answer quorum calls while a handful of opponents conduct the filibuster. 2/

But I’m actually not sure it’s any better. Can’t the 41 just force a quorum call and then abandon the floor, forcing the majority to still produce the whole quorum? There are tricky questions like this that might make any of these plans quite difficult.

I’m also a little foggy on how we’re going to count to 41. Empower the chair to put the question if they personally count less than 41? Will that decision be unappealable? Dangerous.

But if not, are we going to have some sort of roll cal? That might defeat the whole thing. 🤷‍♂️