Good Thursday morning Fellow Seekers,
The mainstream accounts of the failure of Sen. Jim Webb’s amendment all emphasize that it fell four votes short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster. But if the goal is really to change administration policy in Iraq, this threshold is greatly overrated, because President Bush would have vetoed the […]

Good Monday morning Fellow Seekers,
(Don’t be confused by the jocular tone just below, this post poses a serious question.) 
If you don’t know what day this is, you’ve already missed the first question of the quiz I plan to post after lunch. But I’m not going to count it off your score, since this is just the warm-up.
Answer: Today […]