The Nuclear Senate Goes Nucular

Senate historian Richard Baker notes in this C-Span interview that for the first time in history a majority (52) of US Senators are former members of the House, and links this to their inadequate sense of reverence for Senate rules and tradition (cf. the nuclear option). One can quibble that the nuclear option was actually adopted for a couple hours in the Democrat-controlled Senate of the 1970s, and then almost immediately repealed. But Baker is right that there is a disturbing trend towards assimilation of the two houses.