The deal . . . revisited

Okay, 15 hours after I woke up to hear the details of 'the deal', and after reading Jane's take on it, and reading all the Freeper freak outs at the Sister and Pam, I'm feeling a little better about it. Steve Gillard put me over the top:

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First, all the deal does is allow for a vote, not a guaranteed confirmation.

Second, with 45 Senators, you can only do so much. Any deal is a good deal under those circumstances.

But that's not why we won this.

This stopped James Dobson. [my emphasis]

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Go read the whole damn thing. He makes a lot of sense.