E.J. Dionne hit a home-run with his latest column. Here’s the part I liked best.
Economists agree that the stimulus worked to create jobs, but Senate moderates made it less effective by shrinking its size and including irrelevancies — notably $70 billion to fix the alternative minimum tax — that did little to create jobs. The moderates got their way because the stimulus needed 60 votes, an absurd standard now that we have an ideologically polarized, parliamentary-style party system. We can waste time mourning that development or we can recognize it and act accordingly.
I haven’t seen the case against the filibuster made in a more succinct manner. It’s actually quite elegant.
