Month: November 2013
In case you still think John F. Kennedy was a good president, Dylan Matthews has a good run-down of how he was so overrated. It's the basic case--major foreign policy.
While we can all be happy that the filibuster is finally dead, let's also pay attention to just who Obama is nominating to these judgeships. Such as Patricia Millet, designer.
Shorter Dana Milbank: Since American political history started in 2013, it is clear that the United States Senate is a much more effective and functional legislative body than the House.
Johnathan Adler is the latest Republican to threaten to do things that Republicans have already been doing and will continue to do: On the bright side, the era of super-majority.
Apparently, this past summer an "original documentary" aired somewhere in the depths of cable pushing a TWA 800 conspiracy, and this article critiques this "three missile theory". Conspiracy theories, by.
On further reflection, I still see this as a massive win. I'm amused by the Republican counter-threats to nominate...exactly the same kind of judges they've been nominating and getting confirmed.
Earlier in the month we discussed the phenomenon of Republican judges citing each other's dicta as if they constituted some kind of meaningful precedent. Well, this winger chain mail now.
Could this really be happening? Senate Democrats are on the verge of moving to eliminate the use of the filibuster against most presidential nominees, aides and senior party leaders said.