Comments on: The Curtain Falls on Lieberman-Warner (For Now) http://hoosieraccess.com/blog/2008/06/06/the-curtain-falls-on-lieberman-warner-for-now/ HoosierAccess.com Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:06:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Nathan Brindle http://hoosieraccess.com/blog/2008/06/06/the-curtain-falls-on-lieberman-warner-for-now/#comment-3806 Nathan Brindle Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:49:40 +0000 http://hoosieraccess.com/blog/2008/06/06/the-curtain-falls-on-lieberman-warner-for-now/#comment-3806 Robert Heinlein once noted (via a character in <i>The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress</i>) that perhaps any good government should include a chamber whose delegates' sole duty was to reject laws passed in the other chamber. He said something to the effect that if a bill couldn't muster a 2/3 positive vote (i.e., at least 1/3 voted against it), then there must be something wrong with it and it was better off killed. Looks like that's the Senate we have, if we can maintain a cloture-proof minority and the Pubs stick together. (Not that I expect them to, four years is a long time to be in the wilderness.) Robert Heinlein once noted (via a character in The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress) that perhaps any good government should include a chamber whose delegates’ sole duty was to reject laws passed in the other chamber. He said something to the effect that if a bill couldn’t muster a 2/3 positive vote (i.e., at least 1/3 voted against it), then there must be something wrong with it and it was better off killed.

Looks like that’s the Senate we have, if we can maintain a cloture-proof minority and the Pubs stick together. (Not that I expect them to, four years is a long time to be in the wilderness.)

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