So, I imagine that Democrats’ thank-you notes are in the mail to outgoing U.S. Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin for their refusal to end the filibuster.

U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego once called the 60-vote Senate rule “a tool of obstruction,” back when Democrats ran the joint.

Gallego is one of many Democrats who called out Sinema for her refusal to join with them and end the filibuster so that a wish list of Democratic proposals could flow forth on a simple majority vote.

“My position is that filibuster has to get reformed. It’s not a tool of compromise, it’s a tool of obstruction,” Gallego said last year as he announced his Senate campaign.

Still feeling the same way, I wonder, now that Republicans are about to control the........

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