Some discussion has been occurring about how the filibuster might be reformed or dispensed with. I guess this is welcome, because the more it is generally accepted that the Senate is an utterly dysfunctional institution because it can't be anything else, the better off we'll be, in that there will be a bit less bullshit in the world. The problem, though, is that the only way to get the Senate to be less of a problem is to get Senators to reform the Senate, which is something that will never happen ever, because the Senate is composed of Senators.
So I'll sign on gladly to what Bowers proposes here. But I am skeptical about his points one through three, on the grounds that I have come to think that the Senate has become so insulated from, well, democracy, that it will end up destroying the nation and the world well before anything can ever be done about fixing it via democratic means. In short, I think global climate change is more easily remedied than the United States Senate, and I'm not exaggerating.
But I sure will do everything I can to discredit the Senate and mock it for its absurd self-regard, because, well, the Senate is full of Senators, and I don't like that class of individual, the pompous lot of preening shits.