24
2005
A deal is a deal is a deal. Which often means no one's happy. But everyone's glad it's all over.
The LATimes has a good piece on the landscape created by the Senate Filibuster deal pointing out that a new moderate middle could be beginning to swing its weight. We'll see today as the House votes on stem cells.
It's way too early to say that moderation is back in style – conservatives are on the war path – but both houses of Congress operate better when they're not at each others' throats and everyone in and out of politics knows it. Deals, baby, it's all about the deals.
That's the sentiment that was behind California's Recall election: The pure and simple belief that the state government was broken. That is not an atmosphere that wins elections and the next Congressional elections are only 18 months away.