Memo to Joe Manchin and every other Senator fighting repeal or even reform (back to what it was until early in Nixon's first term) of the filibuster:Â Â If you want the power Presidents are granted in the Constitution to...
With my eyes, I don't very often read my comments anymore, and more seldom reply to them. Apparently, in my articles about the filibuster kerfuffle in the Senate, I get a consistent question in the comments asking me if...
I ain't as young as I used to be, or as quick, and so I had to take a little time to make sure I had this right before I wrote it up. But I double checked the video,...
OK hotshot, it's time to either put up or shut up! Joe Manchin has spent the last year stoutly refusing to reform or blow up the filibuster, because he swears on a stack of bibles that is forces better legislation to...
Even before the first shots were fired in the Ukraine invasion, I have been highly complimentary on the way that Biden has run rings around Putin. He lectured him, he warned him, and he declassified classified documents to show...
Somehow or other, it's funny how often politicians tend to look at shit bass-ackwards. For instance, both Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema seem to honestly believe that the filibuster leads to bipartisanship by respecting the rights of the minority...
In the end, it was actually all nothing but theatrical bullshit. Faced with a suddenly unified Democratic party with a spine, and a ticking clock, Yertl the Turtle rolled over on his shell. The Democrats will be allowed to...
This is a great tutorial from somebody who was there in the Senate when Mitch McConnell was abusing the filibuster. McConnell filibustered more nominees during the Obama years than had previously been filibustered in the history of the United...
We've seen some pretty hilarious supercuts and split screen comparisons in the past several years, but can you imagine Jimmy Stewart, with his passionate decency, filibustering for his noble cause, juxtaposed with Lindsey Graham gaslighting, in an effort to...
Personally, I think Chuck Schumer acted like an ass. After all, you don't rub somebody's nose in a publicly humiliating loss, especially when you need to work with them again in another 60 days. But boy, oh boy!, can...
