One, two, three, four, five,six, seven.
That is the number of weeks it took the U.S. Senate to begin to begin to get down to business. Last week the Senate finally managed to organize its committees—and even then the action came over the bitter protest of a band of Senate liberals who had been holding up the works all along.
The Senate's self-proclaimed liberals number about 45, including a few Republicans, and on paper they should comprise the upper chamber's strongest voting bloc, and perhaps even its conscience. But in practice, they are...
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