Mitch Perry Report – 11.19.14
Former Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon often likes to say these days that “60 is the new 40,” but in American politics, 60 has become the 51 for quite some time now. By that I mean the two big votes in the U.S. Senate that “lost” last night — the Keystone XL pipeline (also known as the Save Mary Landrieu Act) bill and the vote to reform the National Security Agency’s surveillance program, both had strong majorities in their…