Can I Even Get An Isolated Random Anectdote?

Not being on the top-secret list I can't say whether someone actually did come up with one. But I'm amused that the small and odd band of progressives attempting to defend the filibuster a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/07/status-quo-bias-and-extremism.php"could apparently only muster a case/a -- privatizing social security -- in which the filibuster was a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/07/the_filibuster_and_democracy.html"completely irrelevant. /a (In addition to Matt and Ezra, see a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dismantling-Welfare-State-Retrenchment-Comparative/dp/0521555701/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1248628707amp;sr=8-2"Pierson/a -- the basics of the welfare state proved similarly durable in Westminster systems.) br /br /Of course, even if someone could come up with an isolated example of the filibuster having a span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"progressive/span impact, it wouldn't change the fact that the filibuster a href="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/02/on-indefensibility-of-filibuster.html"is a terrible idea in theory that has had horrible effects in practice./a The idea that any progressive would defend it is frankly bizarre to me.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-6996358240329476699?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div