The Senate makes up for being a rubber-stamp by being invisible on every other major issue, and it no longer can be viewed as an institution dedicated to public service. https://t.co/XI9YqFl4Ks— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 25, 2020
...to keep paying for coronavirus testing in Texas. And he said "pretty please;" or near enough for dammit. So there's that.
There's a scene in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," IIRC, where Senator Claude Rains is informed on the floor of the Senate that the President wants something of him, and Rains contemptuously dismisses the President for not being a Senator. It was that, or an anecdote by Gore Vidal where a real Senator expressed the same sentiment. Fact or fiction, but what was only about 70 years ago.
Try to imagine that scene in a moden movie involving the U.S. Senate. It would play as pure fantasy, and be roundly condemned as more wishful than "The West Wing" ever was.
Ah, dem was de days!
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