MaddowBlog: Ignoring irony, Sen. McConnell warns Democrats may 'vandalize' the Senate
Broadly speaking, there are two angles to this. The first is McConnell's suggestion that filibusters are the Senate's"distinguishing feature." That's not even close to being true.
As the image suggests, the numbers started really spiking in 2007 -- when a Kentucky lawmaker by the name of Mitch McConnell took over as the Republican Party's Senate leader. McConnell doesn't believe in"playing by the rules"; he's spent years twisting and manipulating those rules to the point that the Senate
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