I'm trying to understand yesterday's filibuster. Normally a filibuster is to prevent a vote, but there was no vote scheduled. I gathered both sides were kicking around some ideas on legislation about tightening up gun sales to terrorist-ish types, but were trying to agree on detail, in their offices or whatever. So what was the point of that particular filibuster? Was the guy trying to make it so absolutely nothing else besides gun stuff happened in the actual legislature room until those outside the room got to a compromise? Did it work, or was it a lot of grandstanding?
What a ridiculous system. I tried watching last night and it was relegated to cspan2 while British legislators yelling were on the main channel. We need v2.0.