In political journalism, process stories are said to be bad. They are too inside baseball. They track only incremental movement. They are technical and complex. Readers have better things to do. They care about what happened, not how it is happening (or why it is not happening). They want to know about results. (For what its worth, as …
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Doris Kearns Goodwin: “Let Them Filibuster.”
It’s been quite a week for my Make Them Filibuster campaign. Two high-profile endorsements! First, Governor Ed Rendell and now historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Here’s what she told Jon Stewart last night on the Daily Show:
Let them filibuster. You realize how great they’re going to look, these Republicans, trying not to go to
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Rendell: “Make Them Filibuster”
My favorite cause seems to have picked up a new spokesman: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.
We’ll see if the Little Girls of the United States Senate pay him any more attention than they have me. (In addition to the two links above, you can read more of my earlier arguments on this subject here, and here.)
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Republican-not
E.J. Dionne has an interesting column today on the Republican party’s Senate strategy of forcing a cloture vote on everything, even on the few provisions they support. A few months ago, I wrote that the G.O.P. had become a party led by nihilists. This is further evidence of that. I have doubts about some of the legislation the Democrats …
Latest Latest Installment of the Make ’em Filibuster Campaign
There must be some Swampland followers in the Senate leadership. And it appears that, at last, they have heard our heartfelt pleas. Roll Call tells us this:
Harkin said Democrats expect Republicans will try to stall the debate by asking for the entire bill to be read on the Senate floor. If that happens, Harkin said, the majority
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Latest Installment of Make ’em Filibuster
As long-time readers of Swampland know, I am a big proponent of the filibuster. And I mean the Real Filibuster–not the make-believe ones that the little girls of the United States Senate are constantly waging, and not the occasional exercises where they pull out the fainting couches cots and pretend that they are actually going to sleep …