Thank-you, Mr. President!
As Federalists hold the majority of the senate membership, step aside for one of them. Yankee
If that standard mattered, I would have lost half of the times I won the PPT, including several 8-2 Leftist Senates thanks to votes of people like Antonio, Kalwejt and Napoleon, as well as many many others over the years.
If that standard had been applied in 2013, TNF would have been Senator from the outset of Duke's administration onward.
The PPT was suppose to be a non-partisan office, but frequently the elections for such became partisan affairs, with the JCP voting me out twice when they achieved the numbers to do so. However, they ran the place under pretty much the same manner as I did. Bacon King and Bgwah just wanted the office, not to change the ball game.
Labor spent two whole years seeking to transform the office, thanks to a combination of TNF's outrageous demands (basically that he dominate the floor even after I bended the rules to get him an extra bill on the floor as it was) and Labor's much vaunted party unity over all meant a blind quest to elect him as PPT and transform the Senate's leadership method to a partisan one. The structure was never changed and TNF's time as PPT was a disaster long predicted and quickly dispensed with. However, I don't doubt that Nix hoped the creation of the Speakership and destruction of the PPT (as well as once again making the VP useless) would eventually lead to people naturally moving in that direction. But a good kind providence always seems to shine on us in this regard. Some might call it luck, in this case, I called it Speaker Windjammer.
I hope that the new SEnate is organized similiarly with it's (as yet unamed officer, but hopefully something akin to President or Presiding Officer) leadership and rules. It would help provide an important constrast and differentiation with the House. THis was the present in the Duke Plan back in 2013 as well, with a partisan House leadership and a non-partisan Senate administration.
