Chart of the day.

This is why we can't have nice things...


H/T Donkeylicious.

Cause...

Effect...

All Democratic senators returning next year have signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., urging him to consider action to change long-sacrosanct filibuster rules.

The stage is set.

63-33.

That's 'just' the cloture vote, of course.

Case closed, though. Looks like history tomorrow.

They didn't wait. Final passage 65-31.

Yeah for us. All of us.

Chart of the day.

Via Ezra Klein...

Quote of the day.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid…

"Ted would be happy."

Me too.

From the "Cunning plan" file.

Sir Charles seconds William Greider's call for cloture at 55...

Let's achieve post-partisan politics by making the partisans on the other side utterly irrelevant to the debate.

Yep.