Common sense is an oddly appropriate expression, if you understand "common" as in "common people". Because as soon as the senators aren't afraid to lose the next election, maybe only because it be far enough and public opinion forgets fast, then I bet that Dianne will have some purely cosmetic changes into the bill and says it's now OK.
Politicians as a caste want this through very very badly. They just need the expectable electoral damage to be controlled.
It's in these cases (as with the bailouts) that they like to say that anyone opposing a policy is being "partisan", and that parties must work together. Although I don't think they call pull this one in this case, it needs fear to be created to work--as with terrorism, economic crisis. Anyway, having more than one party and having them disagree is one (not the only one by far) of the necessary conditions for a democracy. If parties work together in everything, you have team dictatorship.
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