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Dan Quayle (remember him?) on Fox news, transcribed by Talking Points Memo, where you can see the video if you'd like: "They're gonna go to budget reconciliation, which I believe would set a very bad precedent, because essentially -- if they could do it, and I don't know if they can do it, but if they could do it -- what you have done, effectively, is to take away the filibuster in the United States Senate," Quayle said. "So, therefore, you have 51 votes in the House and 51 votes in the Senate. That is not what our Founding Fathers had in mind. That is not the constitutional process." How do I lie to you? Let me count the ways: 1. "That is not what our Founding Fathers had in mind." From an recent article in Time Magazine (this information is easily confirmable lots of places:) "The filibuster, long seen by its proponents as a necessary check on power and by its critics as a frustrating waste of time, has been around since th...

Let's not let Michelle Bachmann's latest idiocy on the census to cause us to miss Michelle Bachmann's latest idiocy on global warming: "What this means is that if you and your friends have an issue with a certain gas that you think should be a greenhouse gas, and you can generate enough support on a petition, you may be able to get that particular gas banned. Get ready for another couple of knocks on your door from the greenhouse-gas-of-the-month club." Michelle, petitioning your government for redress of grievances- that's what we normally call democracy. It's in the Constitution. Go take a look. I mean it. It's right there, for anyone to see. Including you. I mean, it's okay if it is in the Constitution, isn't it? No? Well, then....