Using the Filibuster

Matt Miller, who is a colleague of mine at the Center for American Progress, has a very provocative piece in the upcoming edition of Fortune magazine. He says the filibuster that Democrats need to have is not necessarily about judges, but "about President Bush's request for $82 billion more for Iraq - or to put it more precisely, it's about the cumulative $300 billion tab we're slipping to our kids for a war we've chosen to fight but not pay for, even as we've cut taxes for the best-off."

Give the piece a read. Although I am not opposed to Democrats using the filibuster on judges as well, and although I don't always totally agree with Matt, he is (no pun intended) right on the money in saying the new war funding request is the exact place to have a debate about America's fiscal choices.