Conservatives should be questioning wisdom of current Senate reforms
Simply put, the plan to create an elected Senate and impose term limits on its members in response to that body's ongoing refusal to rubber-stamp government legislation doesn't pass the prudence test.
Edmund Burke, widely regarded as the father of modern conservatism, observed that prudence, rather than adherence to abstract principle, is the chief virtue of a good government. If that's so, then conservatives of all people (I refer here to the philosophy, not the party) should be questioning t...
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