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The Empty Chamber: Just how broken is the Senate? This is probably one of the best and most reasoned pieces I have read about how the Senate works in the present. It verrry long but well worth reading. At the end of it, I dont think the author comes down on any side other than that the Senate needs to actually start engaging in substantive debate versus posturing for the cameras. Very excellent and thoughtful piece with no partisan bent that I could discern.
?The Quayle generation came in, and there were a number of people just like Dan?same generation, same hair style, same beliefs,? Gary Hart, the Colorado Democrat, recalled. ?They were harder-line. They weren?t there to get along with Democrats. But they look accommodationist compared to Republicans in the Senate today.?
If I didn't know better, I would say that that is veiled racial stereotyping....imagine if Dan Quayle was a minority.
The Empty Chamber: Just how broken is the Senate? This is probably one of the best and most reasoned pieces I have read about how the Senate works in the present. It verrry long but well worth reading. At the end of it, I dont think the author comes down on any side other than that the Senate needs to actually start engaging in substantive debate versus posturing for the cameras. Very excellent and thoughtful piece with no partisan bent that I could discern.
Did you update your first post ?update :I got wrong, sorry
The Empty Chamber: Just how broken is the Senate? This is probably one of the best and most reasoned pieces I have read about how the Senate works in the present. It verrry long but well worth reading. At the end of it, I dont think the author comes down on any side other than that the Senate needs to actually start engaging in substantive debate versus posturing for the cameras. Very excellent and thoughtful piece with no partisan bent that I could discern.
Did you update your first post ?
What do you mean? No, I have not changed it from when I originally posted it this afternoon.
