If I Were Dictator,

I would abolish the United States Senate as being an absolutely useless body which creates all kinds of arcane rules that do nothing but hinder needed legislation. It is outrageous it ever got to this point where stalemate was the rule rather than the exception.

If the GOP wants a filibuster, return to the old system where they had to talk a bill to death, not this chickenshit stuff they have now.

"The use of the filibuster and the way it's led to backroom deals has created the impression in the heartland that the Senate is dysfunctional," said Jack Conway, a Democratic candidate facing Republican Rand Paul in Kentucky. "They don't understand why Washington can't address the issues people care about. People in Kentucky wanted people focused on jobs -- 14 months [of the health care debate] laid bare how broken the system was."

Conway was joined in his backing of filibuster reform by the three other Senate candidates who HuffPost interviewed for this story: Paul Hodes of New Hampshire, Elaine Marshall of North Carolina and Roxanne Conlin of Iowa. Sitting Senators Al Franken (D-Minn.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) also said they supported reform.

"It's not constitutional. It's not statutory. It's a rule," said Hodes, adding that he wasn't certain what the new rule should look like exactly, but the current ones needed to be reformed. "Everywhere I go, they say, 'Make 'em bring out the cots and the telephone books.' People are eager for real backbone and some toughness from Democrats."

Unfortunately, Democrats have squandered this shit and haven't put the GOP on the defensive. If, God forbid, the GOP gets in the majority next term, it's going to be an even bigger mess.

I'd just as soon see the Senate done away with.