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Bob Harris On The Senate Deal To Preserve Filibusters:
"Long-term, however, the very notion of Senate rules having any meaning at all has itself been put on the table. And if the last few years have shown us anything, it's that what's unimaginably extreme today can be spun into conventional wisdom tomorrow.

Compulsive executive secrecy, lies to Congress, elective war in defiance of virtually the entire world, nationalized surveillance databases, imprisonment without trial, torture without accountability, reporters on the White House payroll, elections with no paper trail, and dozens of other concepts complete alien to any basic understanding of what America is supposed to be have all become a part of the daily landscape.

They push for a foot and we surrender an inch. But fanatics never stop. So gradually we're all pulled along. Inches become feet become miles.

So victory is ours: we only gave an inch this time. Again. "