The Election—IV

The Election—IV: Steven Weinberg, Garry Wills, and Jeffrey D. Sachs

Barack Obama; drawing by John Springs

Steven Weinberg

The presidency of Barack Obama began to fail on January 6, 2009, a fortnight before the president was inaugurated. Only on that day, the first day of a new Congress, the rules of the Senate could have been changed by a simple majority vote. That was the last opportunity to revise the rule that requires sixty votes to limit a filibuster. Of course, no president-elect or president has ...