Barack Obama: "We have to redesign how the federal government works. The filibuster is not in the Constitution. By the time I got to office, the Republican side essentially just rewrote the Constitution" nitter.net/theblaze/status/210316… First of all that's not true, second, when he was a senator in 2005, he defended the filibuster, warning against changing Senate rules to let the majority push everything through Years later, when Democrats controlled the Senate, his position changed and he supported Democrats eliminating the filibuster