On the Media On the Filibuster
More stealing from James Fallows’ blog — he sat down with Bob Garfield of the great NPR show “On the Media” to discuss the failure of the media to clarify the lunacy of the filibuster. (If I hear one more media outlet report that the Senate Democrats lost their majority when a Republican won the Massachusetts’ Senate seat, I will bang my head against the wall. They lost only their 60-seat supermajority and still hold an 18-seat majority; 19 if you count Joe Lieberman. In the absurd system we have, that’s apparently not enough to get stuff done. Sigh.)