04 gusht 2010

SENATVS POPVLVSQVE AMERICANVS

If you ever wondered why the Senate is so much on the news and why very little seems to happen there, I strongly recommend you read this report from The New Yorker, which attempts to answer the question, 'Just how broken is the Senate?'

I'll let you discover for yourself. But here's a preview:
Even if the freshmen Democrats can somehow reform the filibuster next January, the Senate will remain a sclerotic, wasteful, unhappy body. The deepest source of its problems is not rules and precedents but, rather, its human beings, who have created a culture where Tocqueville’s “lofty thoughts” and “generous impulses” have no place.

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