The other day, when i wrote the article defending and explaining my reasons for wanting to ditch the filibuster, I knew that there was another great reason that I just couldn't seem to pull out of the tapioca that...
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...
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...
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...
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:   If you want the power Presidents are granted in the Constitution to...
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...
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,...
With all of the other news breaking today, especially the news about the Manhattan DA empaneling a special grand jury to hear evidence about the Trump organization, this kind of slid under the radar. And it shouldn't. Because it...
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...
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...

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