REPENT!! The End is Nigh!!

[theim]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion...3348461.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials

surely this can only be the sign of impending apocalypse. Or someone hacked the LA Time's website.

As this page has argued, the filibuster is essentially a reactionary tool that unduly empowers obstructionist minorities. Due to its disproportional representation — California (population 36 million) and Delaware (population 830,000) each get two senators — minority rights are already well protected in the Senate. The filibuster, as an additional brake on democracy that goes beyond the constitutional framework to give individual senators even more power, should have been nuked for all purposes, not just in the context of judicial nominees.

 

[5stringJeff]

Holy crap. I can't believe I agree with the LAT. Although their whine about Senate composition is

 

[manu1959]

it is a trick! TURN AWAY! TURN AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

 

[no1tovote4]

Wow, and that is the official position of the paper...