Steals and deals

From Thomas Lifson, the editor and publisher of The American Thinker:

There is a surprising amount of ambivalence among the pundits about the last-minute deal fashioned by 14 Senators yesterday to avoid a decisive end to the conflict over the filibustering of judicial appointees. Almost all are certain that their side didn’t win, though some on both the left and the right take comfort in the fact that their antagonists on the other side are unhappy. Cold comfort, but better than abject loss. Still, there is an undeniable sense among conservative enthusiasts that an impending triumph has been stolen, defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.