[Alberta's Child]

The filibuster rule always struck me as one of the more idiotic political games in Washington anyway. If the notion of a 3/5ths vote is so sacrosanct in the Senate, then why wasn't it included in the U.S. Constitution?

Let's stop pretending the Senate has ever been a respected, deliberative governing body -- at least in our lifetimes. When you have a bloated, drunken slob like Ted Kennedy hold a lifetime seat in that organization, I would hope we all would have laughed the place off as a joke years ago.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

One’s mind wanders to visions of the U.N.