Saturday, February 2, 2013

Filibuster Follies

Oh, politics, the land of pretentious promises and futile follow-through.

This time, we were promised, it would be different.  Senate Democrats would no longer allow their GOP colleagues to use the filibuster as a tool for rump, do-nothing government.  It was, at long last, time to stop letting the majority get pushed around.

Or not.

All I can say is that if the "reforms" being put into place aren't good enough for Tom Harkin, they' re not good enough for me.  Perhaps that's why he decided to do this; if so, it's a double blow.

Politics is like life in one sense:  you can't accomplish anything if you're going to live by your fears and not your principals.  Maybe Harry Reid and his colleagues should consider reading The New York Times more often.

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