Harry Reid Changes Senate Rules…Goes Nuclear

Oh boy….Reid has gone over the edge and he will rue the day once the Republicans retake the majority in the Senate:

In a stunning turn of events this evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., used an arcane legislative maneuver to effectively rewrite Senate rules to make it harder for the minority party to force uncomfortable votes on the majority.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bank of America [Reader Post]

With the uproar over Bank of America introducing $5 monthly fees for the privilege of using their debit cards, there is an angle to this that everyone is missing – the law of unintended consequences. Wizbang’s Jay Tea blogged about this very point over the weekend, and I want to take his point a bit further. The law of unintended consequences is going to be one of the chapters in my ongoing (which will end up being nine or ten parts) Economics for Politicians series, but this particular incident warranted its own post.