Ed Kilgore: 5 reasons we’re better off without the filibuster.
A new report from Dylan Scott on the behind-the-scenes steps the White House is taking to keep HealthCare.gov from getting slammed next week.
TPM Reader JM on remembering the broadcasts …
You speak of the CBS News real-time replay of the events. You are nearly 45. I am just past 60
I’m almost 45. So I’ve been watching Kennedy Assassination commemorations my whole life. 50th is a big anniversary – certainly the last big symbolic number when any of the players in the drama will still be alive. But this one was entirely different and unique for me in a way I did not at all expect and in a way that was not entirely tied to the significance of the 50th anniversary milestone itself.
ICYMI: Can Sarah Silverman be as vulgar and (sometimes) gross as male comedians? Read Shannon Kelley’s emphatic “yes”.
Tom Daschle was supposed to be the Secretary of HHS under President Obama. That means he was supposed to manage the roll out of Health Care Reform. We asked him what he thinks of the last 8 weeks.
Sen. Cruz (R-TX) says that killing the filibuster (and that’s really what it is) “will poison the atmosphere of the Senate.”
All the snark aside (and this deserves plenty of snark), I think this does point to the bad position Senate Republicans put themselves in – namely, that it is just not really credible that any more poisoning is possible in the Senate. And no person captures that more clearly than Sen. Cruz.