Going Out with a Whimper

I always thought that the tripartite system set up by the Founding Fathers was pretty clever, but it looks like events have overtaken their good ideas. Last night I was thinking that the solution to the GOP blockade in the Senate would be to just make them actually do a talk-all-night filibuster. As explained in the Huffington Post article, “The Myth of the Filibuster“, it doesn’t work that way. Paul Krugman says, “America Is Not Yet Lost“, but it seems to me that he is more correct in suggesting that we really are going down like Poland, not with a bang, but a whimper.