"The end of the "do something" Congress" & a dumb ?

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/11/the_end_of_the_do-something_co.html

That article was published on Tuesday but I just heard Steph Miller read it on the "rahdeo" and I wondered whether some of this sweeping legislation can now be approved by the Senate during the so-called lame duck session or beyond or if it's all "poof" down the memory hole.