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...hasn't the filibuster been employed to stop progress, more often than not? Seems to be mixed.  Until recently, filibusterswere rare…
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Yes, but they only preserved the right of white men of property to vote, counted slaves as 3/5th of a…
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The filibuster isn't gone.  Expect to see all those applauding today's move to cheer when a GOP controlled Senate kills…
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The timing -- mid-session -- for a rules change may be the worst precedent for this move right now. Structurally,…
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Unfortunately, de-institutionalizing care for those suffering mental illness was a liberal idea.  Reagan just went along with it much like…
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The difference being that Democrats became wimps sometime after Nixon.  Whether they hold the majority or minority.  Hence, Thomas, Roberts,…
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Because they did it during the 2003-2007 period when they had the WH and Senate?  They threatened the "nuclear option…
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I learned many moons ago to be cautious in projecting future elections and never count out even the most repulsive…
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Have to disagree -- and I'm neither stupid nor naive as to what the "modern" GOP has become.  Democrats have…
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Homelessness and high housing costs go together.  The latter is a function of location desirability, but not all high cost…
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...so Harry and Co better have a compelling narrative ready I like Harry but he's a modern Democrat that couldn't…
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Perhaps.  But how far would they go absent a precedent for their rules change?  Further than this: The Senate approved…
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"There Will Be No Price."  Not in public opinion, but that's not the only arena in which a political price…
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Meant stomp on him as in expose him as in not qualified to hold public office.  That's independent of his…
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Oprah is more understandable given that she helped him get elected.  But as a highly visible and immensely wealthy woman,…
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He won his seat in Congress as a clean cut, let's gut the social safety net and not an alcoholic…
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Reduced it from 10x to something like 6x.  Yeah, that's really "fair."
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Weird isn't it that those that would have appreciated seeing him go there aren't in the least upset that he…
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Those like McCallum are so tedious.  If Obama had attended, she'd be crabbing 1) who does he think he is…
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Not to mention the disparity between sentencing for the powdered form of cocaine and crack.  Privileged whites get the former…
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