Now that she’s retiring, Olympia Snowe suddenly realizes that her Republican colleagues are behaving like two year-olds?
Snowe is now looking at ways that Senate procedure could be reformed to help alleviate partisan gridlock. “I’m doing some research on how cloture has been used” since it was put into effect in 1917, she explains. In classic Snowe form, her hope is to try to find a procedural fix that would also be a compromise between the minority and the majority — “so that neither gets the upper hand,” she explains.
She should have started looking at that years ago. But at least that article is a more honest portrayal of our current system than this piece of crap. When your article notes that the Farm Bill passed over Bush’s veto a few years ago, you probably don’t want to hold up bipartisan cooperation on this year’s Farm Bill as evidence of a thaw in partisanship in the Senate.
