Source: National Cyber Security - Produced By Gregory Evans
I have mentioned this theme a time or two in the past. But, seriously, if you can sit still for one more installment, this matters. We’re not just talking boiled frogs here. 1) From Jason Zengerle’s consistently fascinating “exit interview” with Barney Frank, in New York magazine, in which Frank looks back on his 30-plus years in Congress and a much longer time than that thinking about politics. I know it’s even longer because when I was a college newspaper guy in the late 1960s, Frank was a grad student/teacher who would show up in the newsroom to talk about how politics should work. Here is what he says now when asked about the main thing that is wrong with Congress. (Emphasis added; NYÂ mag photo at right.) JZ: Are there structural reforms that you think need to take place?BF: To get rid of the filibuster in the Senate.JZ: Is that the only one?BF: That’s the only one. 2) From the political scientist Jonathan Bernstein, at The Plum Line column of the Washington Post: Most Americans, not surprisingly, do not realize that majorities can no longer get their way in the Senate. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that most [...]
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