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...This curriculum happened through a democratic process, but it’s the kind of democracy you’d have in Congress if neither the President nor the party leadership was around,” Lewis said. The Faculty revised the legislation line by line during meetings...
Jingoism is in the air. You can smell it in the halls of Congress, where pandering politicians wax patriotic while inserting protectionist measures into recovery legislation. But you can also find it wafting from the eggplant parmesan in Harvard’s dining halls, which have adopted a rash of interhouse restrictions that make things dicey for those not lucky enough to sport an Adams sticker on their ID cards...
...moderation, are a good way for the minority to prevent or, at the very least, delay the sometimes-overreaching ambitions of the majority. That can be a good thing. Indeed, it is particularly useful in times of crisis and populist hysteria to have a braking mechanism that causes Congress to at least stop and think before it acts...
...rights legislation. Filibusters were not a factor in enacting the legislative agendas of presidents from Roosevelt through Bush Sr. The filibuster has only entered into wide usage in the last 15 years, beginning in Bill Clinton’s first term, when Republicans filibustered 32 times during the 103rd Congress. That number has grown steadily since, thanks to both Republicans and Democrats. The latest Congress filibustered 112 times, 51 of which were successful. The institutionalization of the filibuster is perhaps the premier bipartisan accomplishment of the last two decades, even as it is obviously a product of the hyper-partisanship...
...elections, when the party out of power would ordinarily be expected to win back some seats. Even if Obama’s personal popularity may be hard to overcome, Republicans are hoping for a repeat of the Clinton presidency: a popular president at the mercy of an agenda-setting Congress where the Republicans either dominate or at least hold far greater sway than they do today...