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  • Republican Partisanship Has Poisoned the US Senate


    Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority Authority: 143
    The New York Times has a piece up today discussing the hyper-partisanship weve seen in the US Senate since the Democrats aquired their supposed super-majority in 2008.
    2 hours ago

  • Filibuster: “formula for tyranny by the minority?"


    Joejolly's Weblog — Authority Authority: 134
    Dec. 13, 2004 “One way or another, the filibuster of judicial nominees must end,” he said in a speech to the Federalist Society last month, labeling the use of filibusters against judicial nominees a “formula for tyranny by the minority.”… … Describing the filibusters as intolerable, Senate ...
    21 hours ago

  • Fault in the health reform debacle


    Why We Worry — Authority Authority: 126
    The short answer: the Democrats in the Senate . Let me tell you why. The filibuster In the United States Senate, one Senator can hold up legislation using the filibuster rule. In order to stop a filibuster, it takes 60 votes. Senate tradition held that the filibuster would only be used in extraordinary ...
    3 days ago

  • Do People Really Want More Control Of Their Healthcare Costs?


    Better Health — Authority Authority: 511
    Over at The Corner, Ramesh Ponnuru theorizes that people want more control over how they spend their health care dollars: [Ezra] Klein’s argument is that if employees understood that the employer’s alleged share of their health-care costs are really part of their wages — and if they saw it on their paychecks ...
    1 week ago

  • Pittsburgh Promise Again Rears Homely Head


    The Pittsburgh Comet — Authority Authority: 466
    . For background on the universities joint "No" letter, read the P-Gs Schackner and Blazina and the Tribs Brandolph . After delineating various reasons why they think the Student Tax is not ideal and how the Mayor has been less than perfectly constructive: On the basis of those subsequent discussions and ...
    1 week ago

  • Nuclear option


    Needlenose — Authority Authority: 123
    Come on Senator Reid, you milquetoast – you can’t play nice with scoundrels - it’s time for the nuclear option .
    3 weeks ago

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