Picking up from last Friday: Fixing the filibuster: the “Nuclear Option?” Fun Fact: One historian believes that the filibuster originated, not as a deliberate and cherished bulwark against runaway majoritarianism, but as a mistake.
Read the Rest!Is the U.S. Senate Obsolete–I?
Today begins a two-part analysis of our broken United States Senate.
Read the Rest!The Canary is Coughing
Mike Lofgren was mad as Hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore.
Read the Rest!And, Here We Go
It’s on.
The national party conventions are over; the true believers are energized. Unleash Death by 30-Second Slanders to win enough votes from the 30% of “independent” registered voters who gag on politics to get to 270 in the Electoral College.
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