MB Civic

By Ezra Klein | Sunday, March 7, 2010 | The Washington Post

“…This is the consequence of running the Senate by twisting the rules. It’s not just that you have the 60-vote filibuster process competing against the 51-vote reconciliation process. It’s that you have the Senate wasting days and weeks in cloture votes for doomed filibusters and rewriting legislation to conform to the odd limits of reconciliation. And as the minority becomes less responsible with the filibuster (and oh boy, have minority Republicans become less responsible with the filibuster), the majority needs to use reconciliation more often….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/05/AR2010030502233_pf.html