Something from the constitution, namely the Second Amendment, I am quite happy that it takes 60 votes for it to pass the Senate. Definitely not normal circumstances.
I personally believe that you're too happy to throw the word coward around.
Perhaps cowardice is thinking that the other "side" has no merits to its arguments. Or perhaps cowardice is constantly belittling the other "side" from which one is on. Sadly the time of compromise and respect for one's fellows across the political spectrum seems to be gone. For now.
To each his own and I know I won't convince you otherwise, but I maintain your arguments would come across better if you had been objective from the beginning and not come across as rabidly partisan. Left or right, extremism is rather boring to read.