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The filibuster is sure taking its lumps these days. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says "the Senate -- and, therefore, the U.S. government as a whole -- has become ominously dysfunctional". The Democrats won the White House and Congress last year and should have had no trouble passing the health care overhaul, yet "the need for 60 votes to cut off Senate debate and end a filibuster -- a requirement that appears nowhere in the Constitution, but is simply a self-imposed rule -- turned what should have been a straightforward piece of legislating into a nail-biter. And it gave a...
Memo to the House: Adopt the Filibuster
Really we need to end the job description of "politician" and create a lottery like jury duty and let the people really run the show. Like Mr. Buckley used to say and I paraphrase, I would trust the first 400 people in the phone book more than the losers we have now.