One of the things I had been meaning to do since coming to DC was to check out the Politics. How to do that? Well one of the blogs I read daily, Matt Yglesias, writes for the website of the Center for American Progress. So I checked out there events link on their website, and sure enough they have stuff going on pretty regularly. Most of it is during the day, but they have a lecture series called Progressivism on Tap that runs weekly in the evenings so I registered to attend. This worked out well, because I also got to check out Busboys and Poets (the one on 5th & K) at the same time.
I arrived at 6, and got to snack on the food that was provided, and due to some technical difficulties, the dialogue got started at about 6:30. The format for this was kind of a long form interview format between the host and Todd Lindberg. who is a conservative thinker and author. I loved being there for it. I mean I pretty much disagreed with everything this guy was though philosophically but he was pretty honest about the stating the politics of things and I respect that he came to talk to a room full of liberals. The Q&A that followed was even better as he tried pretty valiantly to answer our questions. I left thinking I could hold my own in such a dialogue as there were questions I felt I could ask (did not really get a chance as time was limited).
Let's see. I would have asked him that given the nature of our institutions, did he think that whn Republicans regained control of the Senate (it has to happen eventually) did he think they would eliminate the filibuster given that they have traditionally been the party to push that type of aggressive politics. And if so, is that a good thing? And what are his thoughts on how the Republican party acts like a partisan parliamentary party with strong party discipline. You know, just to hear the conservative take on these issues.
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