Why politics is boring

It's a recurring theme for him, but Ezra Klein once again does a good job of summarizing what is wrong with the American political system: the Senate. It's broken. And you can have a million pundits write a million articles and posts and do a million interviews about this or that tactic or strategy or poll or gaffe, and it's all noise, because the simple, boring, underlying reason that we're in the position we're in is because it takes sixty--sixty--goddamn votes in the Senate to pass a law.

As the refrain goes: We're all Californians now.