Or to put it another way, twitter is the sound of millions of people collectively discovering they have nothing important to say.
Brilliantly put. I just tweeted that to all my followers!
The capacity for a filibuster by Republicans will be destroyed
As if. The Democrats simply aren't a solid bloc the way the Republicans have been in similar situations. And Arlen Specter may be becoming a Democrat but he's not becoming a liberal. Democrats don't tend to be united, and they give in to the other side pretty easily at times. I don't think this will change much at all, other than that it will be slightly easier to blame Democrats for everything that goes wrong over the next 4-8 years.
However, you can get revenge that way.
"Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards." -- Soren F. Petersen
