Number 12
This was supposed to be the year that Congress was torn asunder over court nominations and appointments. Sadly, for some of us, this was just a lot of hype, and the Senate is certainly no closer to falling apart than when Preston Brooks* beat Charles Sumner on the Senate floor.
To the rescue has come the Gang of Fourteen, who agreed to head off filibusters by the Democrats and rules changes by the Republicans by agreeing to meet and deliberate and...I can't really remember what they agreed to do. But they're gonna make it right. Uh, huh, baby, tonight.
At least until someone awful is nominated.
*Brooks was a congressman, but he beat up Sumner because of something Chuck said about the congressman's cousin, who was then a Senator from South Carolina, during a speech about bringing Kansas into the Union as a free state or as a slave state.
To the rescue has come the Gang of Fourteen, who agreed to head off filibusters by the Democrats and rules changes by the Republicans by agreeing to meet and deliberate and...I can't really remember what they agreed to do. But they're gonna make it right. Uh, huh, baby, tonight.
At least until someone awful is nominated.
*Brooks was a congressman, but he beat up Sumner because of something Chuck said about the congressman's cousin, who was then a Senator from South Carolina, during a speech about bringing Kansas into the Union as a free state or as a slave state.
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