Tobias Higbie on Flickr/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 It’s easy to call for filibuster death when one backs the party in the majority; less so when in the minority. In legislation, the filibuster is one of the few means the minority party has to be heard. The problem isn’t the filibuster; it’s the Republicans.
At around noon on Sunday, the world stopped turning for me. I was listening to the Senate debate on CSPAN on my phone and what I heard made me stop everything and just listen. I’ve watched the video twice since then and listened twice without the visual. I recommend you listen without the visual first, [...]
This is a video of the presser with Susan Collins and Joe Lieberman on the 15th, after Lieberman forces Democrats into giving in to dumping the public option and Medicare buy-in. The scene is important. GOP leaders have just done their own press conference. Snowe and Collins are not there. Immediately after the GOP leaders [...]