The filibuster's conservative tilt

Ezra Klein - The filibuster's conservative tilt .

...the argument for majority rule in the Senate isn't an argument about the relative worth of health-care reform and gay rights. What makes something "democratic-minded" is whether it's, well, democratic. When 41 senators representing less than 20 percent of the population can block legislation, that's not a democratic state of affairs, no matter the issues involved.