A surprise from the Senate
Who won the great filibuster stand-off?
AT EIGHT O'CLOCK on Monday evening the Alliance for Justice, a left-wing interest group, ran a 90-second advertisement in which Harry Reid, the Senate's Democratic minority leader, informed the country that “a crisis is unfolding here in the Capitol.” Yet even as the celluloid Mr Reid warned of a crisis the real Mr Reid was celebrating a peace deal.
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