TOM UDALL: “THIS PLACE IS COMPLETELY CONSTIPATED.”

For one day every two years, the Senate can change its rules. Tomorrow is that day and Tom Udall (D-NM) is planning to reform the filibuster.  The filibuster is a grotesque perversion of the original once-in-a-while tactic against a majority action.  In other words, so movements don’t . . . er, pass.  Now the Republicans have seized on it as a way to block legislation.  This is a big reason so much has been broken, blocked and crippled in Washington.

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