{"id":183555,"date":"2013-01-24T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/24\/its-a-petri-dish-for-narcissistic-sociopaths\/"},"modified":"2013-01-24T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T02:27:00","slug":"its-a-petri-dish-for-narcissistic-sociopaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/01\/24\/its-a-petri-dish-for-narcissistic-sociopaths\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Petri Dish for Narcissistic Sociopaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The filibuster <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/279237-liberals-irate-as-senate-passes-watered-down-filibuster-reform\">stands largely unchanged<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Senate enacted modest reforms to its filibuster rules with votes that kept bipartisan relations intact but left disappointed liberal groups fuming.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The reforms are the biggest changes to the Senate\u2019s filibuster rules in decades but fell well short of drastic reforms demanded by labor unions and liberal-leaning advocacy groups.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The deal negotiated between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) provoked an outcry from liberal groups.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Passage of the deal sets to rest Reid\u2019s threat, which he had wielded for months, to use the so-called &#8220;nuclear option&#8221; to change the Senate\u2019s filibuster rules through a simple majority vote.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The enacted reforms do not include the implementation of the talking filibuster, which would require senators seeking to block legislation to actively hold the floor and debate. If debate stops, the pending matter moves to a simple majority vote, under this proposal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nor does it shift the burden of sustaining a filibuster onto the minority party by requiring senators to muster 41 votes to continue blocking legislation. Now the burden is on the majority to round up 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s streamlined a bit, but <b>only<\/b> a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m depressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The filibuster stands largely unchanged: The Senate enacted modest reforms to its filibuster rules with votes that kept bipartisan relations intact but left disappointed liberal groups fuming.The reforms are the biggest changes to the Senate\u2019s filibuster rules in decades but fell well short of drastic reforms demanded by labor unions and liberal-leaning advocacy groups.The deal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,985,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-regulation","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}