Tag: H.R.1

  • The Fight for the Filibuster

    The Fight for the Filibuster

    by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021   (Mar. 18, 2021) — Lord Acton said it best, back in 1887: “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The longer explanation of that observation is that as a person’s or organization’s power increases, their moral sense diminishes, sometimes incrementally, sometimes exponentially.  In more colloquial terms, this explains the modern variation on…