New at Reason: John Stossel Defends the Filibuster

December 31, 2009

The filibuster is sure taking its lumps these days in the health care debate. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says "the Senate—and, therefore, the U.S. government as a whole—has become ominously dysfunctional." Yet as John Stossel points out, it's no argument against the filibuster to say that the statists' favorite piece of legislation didn't fly through smoothly enough. They'll have to come up with a better case than that.

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