Lieberman proofing filibuster: needing super majority

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Monday November 02, 2009 · 9:00 AM PST

2009/11/02 · 09:00

All of us viscerally know that the senate filibuster rules are undemocratic. It is undemocratic because in the extreme case senators representing about 11% of the population can prevent a bill from becoming a law by not voting for cloture. That is senators representing 31 million of the 281 million. These would be the 40 senators representing the 20 least populated states. One way to make it more democratic is to require enough senators who together represent at least 40% of the population in order to prevent a bill from cloture. Let us call this the Super Majority Filibuster Option. Follow me below the fold for analysis.

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Wednesday October 14, 2009 · 6:23 PM PDT

2009/10/14 · 18:23

One of the arguments offered by the opponents of the public option goes something like this. Private insurers can not compete with the government run insurance. Once all private insurers go out of business, people will not have a choice.

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Saturday September 05, 2009 · 2:59 PM PDT

2009/09/05 · 14:59

I want to propose an option to the public option. Let individual states opt out of the public option. Provide a mechanism to let individual states opt out. Follow me below the fold to explore why this is a worthwhile argument to pursue.

Update: updated the title.

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Thursday January 01, 2009 · 2:57 PM PST

2009/01/01 · 14:57

I want to explore an idea I had about limiting nepotism in politics. The idea is simple. By law, donors who donated to one member of the family (say W Bush) are not allowed to donate to another member of the same family (say Jeb Bush) for at least 10 to 15 years after their last donation to (W Bush). This is the high level outline of what will limit a little bit of the unfair advantage of a candidate who is related to another elected office holder. With this law in place, if a candidate who is related to another candidate is able to get themselves elected, more power to them in a manner of speaking. I have not defined family in a precise manner, but that is the easy part.

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Thursday December 04, 2008 · 10:50 PM PST

2008/12/04 · 22:50

On Friday, Supreme Court will meet to decide whether to accept the case filed by Tiger Cononfrio. The lawsuit challenges Obama's age. Mr. Cononfrio asserts that Obama cannot possibly be thirty five years old. He claims that the President elect is at most 30, give or take 2 and a half tops.

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Sunday June 22, 2008 · 11:44 AM PDT

2008/06/22 · 11:44

What should happen to Telcom companies that violated the constitution is the billion dollar question. Before we get to the part where I consider what should happen to them, here is how I see what has happened thus far.

What happened:

Telcom companies violated the constitution.

Bush administration as our government had an over sized role in this.

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Saturday June 07, 2008 · 1:10 PM PDT

2008/06/07 · 13:10

As an ardent Senator Obama supporter, I am overjoyed with his winning the nomination. This watershed event was long overdue. An equally urgent goal is to elect a woman nominee for presidency. Senator Clinton's achievements bring that goal nearer but not near enough for a lot of folks. It was always too onerous on one person, be it Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama, to carry the burden of unrealized wishes of so many single handedly. We were fortunate that Sen. Obama was able to pull it off. We shouldn't have to encumber the same burden on any one candidate to remedy historical disparities in accomplishment of any one demographic constituency. I propose the following to get us closer to addressing our president as Madam President.

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 6:21 PM PDT

2008/04/26 · 18:21

One of the talking points of the last few days is to challenge(sucker) Senator Obama into more debates. All of us know that the reason they are asking for these debates is to use free media to attack, attack and attack Senator Obama some more. Even in an unmoderated debate, Senator Clinton will take the low road of innuendo, and not so subtle insinuations that appeal to worse angels in people. The freak show enablers are already picking this up.

I would like to use this diary to come up with as many counter talking points as I can. Please help me help the push back.

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Thursday April 24, 2008 · 7:57 PM PDT

2008/04/24 · 19:57

One of the sports metaphors used by Clinton acolytes to describe the primary contest as it exists today is as follows. This is the 3rd quarter in the game. We don't stop the game after three quarters.

I want you to consider a few sports metaphors that I think describe what happened in Pennsylvania well.

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Saturday April 12, 2008 · 9:43 PM PDT

2008/04/12 · 21:43

Didn't you know that, that Barack Obama, he is a regular foodstamp elitist. You know that his mom raised him with foodstamps and fine wine, don't you? He doesn't know what it is like to be a regular Joe. He is so elitist, he is even trying to quit smoking. I mean, I can understand if he is trying to quit chewing tobaccy, but smoking cigarettes. Oh, come on! Really, that's too high brow, bro.

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