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The Greatest Filibusters
As Sen. Joe Lieberman threatens to filibuster the Senate health-care bill, The Daily Beast looks back on obstructionism’s greatest hits. From presumed poisonings and Roquefort salad dressing recipes to public urination and the 15 hours devoted to saving a typewriter company, the strange and twisted history of the Senate filibuster.
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Whoopsiedoo
The procedural filibuster rule is a hoax and both parties know it. To do away it entirely takes only a 51% vote (not 60).
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090831/geoghegan
But if you really want democracy of the people and not of the Lobbies we need meaningful, radical, campaigning finance reform. The rest all fits into place.
whatsamatteru
Campaign finance reform would be nice, and might even help. But, its constitutional issues are so intricate, and the ways to skirt the rules are so porous, it's not worth the effort. Avoid that constitutional issue by focusing on another -- the clearly unconstitutional way in which House district maps are drawn. Less than ten percent of House seats are even considered competitive and probably half of these lean strongly for the incumbent. We need to stop this madness by finding someone willing to take on this challenge either nationally or state by state. The nation's founders must weep when they look at a permanent ruling class.
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