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Jonah Goldberg writes in the Jewish World Review that the cure for what ails the Senate is to restore real old-fashioned filibusters, at least for nominations:

My unoriginal solution: real filibusters. Senators like the current filibuster rules because blame is diffused in the confusion of institutional logjam, parliamentary procedure and generic partisan squabbling. The old system required senators to pack a thermos and ramble from a podium for hours or days on end. Restoring the old school filibuster would put a human face on these fights.

That would certainly be better than the painless nomination veto that Democrats exercised in the last congress.