Filibustering our democracy

A good editorial from today's Herald-Leader:

"Matters of this level of controversy always require 60 votes," (Mitch McConnell) nonchalantly noted one dreary December day, blocking a bill that would have ended last year's debt ceiling crisis by yielding authority to the president.

But the bill that McConnell had just filibustered should have been utterly uncontroversial to him — it was his own.

McConnell's unprecedented self-filibuster — the senatorial equivalent of punching oneself in the face — was just the most glaringly disingenuous maneuver in the recent, Republican-led spate of obstructionism in the Senate.