[Congressman Billybob]

Any "agreement" in any field and between any parties, is doomed to fall apart when it has the fatal defect in this "Compromise." As this article points out, at the heart of this "Compromise" is a concept that has no clear definition.

The Democrats' public statement repeat the mantra that Republican nominees are "out of the mainstream." The Compromise leaves the future use of the filibuster for "extraordinary circumstances." Both phrases have variable definitions, as if they were written in sand, in a high wind, at high tide.

And the 14 Senators who signed onto the Compromise apparently wanted it that way. The dirty little truth is that the 14 Senators used a deliberately fuzzy definition, because those men and women COULD NOT AGREE TO A SINGLE SET OF TERMS.

Of course the Compromise will fail. It already HAD failed before the ink was dry, and before the last self-congratulatory speech had been given.

Congressman Billybob

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[layman]

Of course the Compromise will fail.

It seems that McCain is involved with many failures.