He should call on the Senate leadership to punish the militant minority, by changing the filibuster rule to at least restore the requirement that the opposition show up, stand up, and speak up if they want to stop the government from acting. Let "efficiency" be the norm for how the government gets things done, rather than the Senate's practice of enabling a minority to stop the government from doing anything. Here again, Republicans have abused an ancient tradition. That abuse should not be ignored.

Finally, Obama the community organizer must begin a conversation with Americans of every political stripe to devise a strategy for ending the corrupting influence of money in American politics.

I'm not optimistic about Obama doing any of these things but they are interesting ideas nonetheless. I thnk that any attempt to make the filibuster rule more fair would be, you know, filibustered.