Today, I’ve been listening to a cool ditty written and sung by Destroyer called “State of the Union”. It comes from his strongest album, City of Daughters, released in 1998.

The key to passing Obama's progressive agenda, or really any agenda in the future, is the passage of significant parliamentary reform. If we want to keep any party from simply being the "party of no," we need to take away the structural tools that make blanket obstructionism possible.