“In the end, support for the bill literally collapsed. Even theimperious Voinovich voted against cloture. Now, there is really no suchthing as an “inside game” anymore, since bloggers make sure it gets”outside.” Both the right and the left will take advantage of this, forgood and ill policy ends. But it’s clearly an enhancement of democracy.Senators should get used to it, and buy more phone lines.”Patrick Ruffini comments:
“We’ve come to expect that bloggers will influence the populist parts of our political process, namely elections. But an august institution like the Senate is a different matter. Now, we’ve shown that no one is immune to the power of a little openness. They will be assimilated.Trent Lott may call that rabblerousing. I call it democracy.”
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