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The move, which once upon a time would have been seen as dynamite, is now widely viewed as a pop-gun in the hands of chastened Republicans looking for an impeachment exit strategy that won't shoot them in the other foot.
Only 50 remain in the House, and most of those still there are chastened.
Here, then, were the two CIAs: the ineptly diabolical agency of old vs. the chastened, competent, and versatile one of today.
Bradley, by contrast, talks like an only slightly chastened Mondale liberal.
But unlike Bradley, he came away from the 1960s chastened by nobility's limits.