Whatever happened to "The Greatest Deliberating Body in the World", aka the U.S. Senate?
If it were a true deliberating body, it would have 100 opinions to begin with before settling into one or two. Instead we start with two lock-step opinions arguing over a foregone conclusion reached by a small majority.
Comment to Maureen Dowd’s column “Trump, Flush With Power” seems to think that Trump will be crashing soon after firing some competent people and replacing them with Fox News people. But some commenters thought Trump would get away with a lot as long as the Senate enables him.
Posted at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/opinion/sunday/trump-fox-news-dowd.html?comments#permid=26368531.
