Krauthammer opts for the

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Krauthammer opts for the limited modified bamboozle: “Democrats have won the semantic war by getting this branded “the nuclear option,” a colorful and deliberately inflammatory term (although Republican Trent Lott, ever helpful, appears to have originated the term).”

Still wildly misleading to readers, of course. But in this case any small motions toward candor, etc.

Meanwhile, The Note retreats to the pre-testicular “filibuster reform.”

(ed.note: Props to TPM Reader DW and JD.)

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