Economic Treason

Update III: History of the Filibuster and Cloture - Great for those who seem believe that we just cannot survive without this relic from the 1850s.

Update II: Thank you William Greider: Stop Senator No, Senate Dems should disable the rule that gives Mitch McConnell a virtual veto over anything he wants to kill. Advocating the filibuster defies reason.

Update: Bush is acting now, good for him.

Or as John Judis outs it: The Feather-Brained GOP Senators Who Sold Out U.S. Workers.

Southern Republican senators [Bush seems to be a non-actor] would throw the country into a depression to lower the wages of workers and break unions.

BuzzFlash calls its "economic treason."

We have to hang on for just 40 more days, and the U.S. Senate should get rid of the filibuster in January, or at least put it at 67 and make the filibusters actually talk. Any parliamentarians in the house?

The stakes are clear: Rid the Senate of this undemocratic relic or stare into the face of a near depression.