Frankly, we are surprised it took this long -- three years and ten and a half or so months into Barack Obama's Purple Reign -- for Senate Minority Leader and King of All He Surveys Mitch McConnell to become so demented that he is now forced to filibuster his own bills.
Nope. Each house adopts its own rules by itself.
Not this Senate... the new one. January.
Circle jerk or circle of jerks?
It's like a 2 year old having a tantrum only not as much fun.