Why didn’t anybody suggest this by-vote approach before? Could it be that you didn’t care what the other side wanted? I think that might be it.

As for shutting up Rush, well, in the words of Bill O’Reilly, “Sometimes we have to sacrifice our civil liberties to protect ourselves.”

or if you prefer . . . Abe Lincoln, blah, habeous corpus, blah, blah, blah, . . . FDR, blah, news reports, blah

Which is it, folks? You can’t have it both ways.