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...
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...
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...
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...
