I have a new TAP piece about the unacceptably high vacancy rates on the federal courts. The best symbol of Republican obstructionism, to me, isn’t Liu. I believe he should have been confirmed, of course, but as someone who believes that the defeat of Robert Bork was one of the few things that could justify […]
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of the senior Senator from Connecticut declining the opportunity to fail in his re-election bid is the retirement of Kent Conrad. Lieberman’s retirement generated the news, Conrad’s is m
Nobody possibly could have predicted that getting Susan Collins’s “support” for DADT would involve procedural compromises that would allow the explicit repeal opponents in her conference to kill the bill. Certainly, we haven’t seen this before.
What Drum says here is correct: Democratic spinelessness on this is worth mocking. But let’s get real: the problem isn’t with Senate Democrats, 97% of whom voted to repeal DADT in Septembe
I the latest grotesque performance from the World’s Worst Deliberative Body provides an excellent illustration of why Matt was wrong to think that Democrats should be unhappy that Mike Castle lo
Whenever you think he’s exhasuted every possible way of being an asshole, Jim Bunning can always suprise you.
BTD asserts: The second problem with this question is Bowers not imagining what a GOP President and GOP Congress would have achieved with the elimination of the filibuster. You thought the actual Bush
Shorter Bobo: Having the Senate run like every pretty much every other democratic legislature in the world would be like genocide. Now, when pro-apartheid southern Senators ran everything and eve
For whatever reason, the filibuster has a romantic appeal to people who should know better, and you often hear from those who dislike the current rules that changing the rules to require “real” filibusters would have some sort of salutary effect. My position continues to be that the effects of such a rule change are […]
Bart Stupak is happy to blow up health care reform, denying countless people medical care and hence unnecessary illness and death, if access to abortion can’t be made more inequitable. Just anot
My official, rational, considered position is that Evan Bayh’s retirement is a bad thing, given the near certainty that he will be replaced by a Republican with a much worse voting record. My em