Jul 12, 2013
Couldn't avoid starting out with the Sharknado this morning, but we got a little more on-topic, eventually. Monte Frank of Team 26 joined us this morning to update us on their latest activities and their plan heading into the late summer and fall. We also read where4art's e-mail on Eliot Spitzer's bid for Comptroller of NYC. And finally, the moment we've all been waiting for: the big, final installment on the exposition on the nuclear option. All the parliamentary maneuvering that went into perfecting the procedure. How it got derailed over and over before striking paydirt in 1975. Where had Senate reform gone wrong in a way that enabled today's silent filibusters, and how did that make exercising the constitutional option that much more complicated. Which Senator who today says he opposes the procedure actually voted for it (in a big way) in 1975? And which Senator who says he opposes it now voted for it (in a smaller way) in 2011? All this and more in today's show, plus a bonus hour not heard during the live stream, but which contains all the good stuff!