These fake filibusters have to stop. The Democrats aren’t even making the Republicans go through with actual filibusters. A true filibuster requires endless speechifying. But the Dems are making it too easy because the Republicans don’t even have to go through with it, apparently.
It should NOT take 60 votes to pass legislation in the Senate.
Just a reminder, if you’re interested, that my chorus, the Empire City Men’s Chorus, has its annual holiday concert tonight. Lots of cute gay guys onstage and probably in the audience.
It will also feature a really hot cimbasso player.
And we’ll also have Barbara Walsh, who recently sang this:
in the Company revival on Broadway. She’s singing two numbers with us and three numbers on her own, one of which is pretty hilarious.
It’s at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, at West 86th Street and West End Avenue, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance (call 212-362-3179) or $30 at the door.
Bill Clinton’s latest whining about press coverage of his wife, Mitt Romney’s latest broadside on immigration, the various spins of the Iran intelligence volte-face, and the sterile who’s-got-more-God competition between candidates, look like the machinations of a disoriented power.
The United States needs a new beginning. It cannot lie in the Tudor-Stuart-like alternation of the Bush-Clinton dynasties, nor in the macho militarism of Republicans who see war without end. It has to involve a fresh face that will reconcile the country with itself and the world, get over divisions — internal and external — and speak with honesty about American glory and shame.
New York Times columnists aren’t allowed to endorse particular presidential candidates, but this looks like an implicit endorsement of Obama. And it’s the best reason to support Obama that I can think of.
I still haven’t made up my mind, but it’s ideas like this one that make me want to vote for him.