Well, it would seem that the United States Senate has been placed into receivership by 14 self-appointed trustees, several of whom are amongst the Senate's most wanton exhibitionists. Some of these ladies and gentlemen can be seen almost daily preening in front of television cameras confessing their moral superiority over their colleagues by virtue of their lack of firm convictions and their unwillingness to be team players. Ironically, they have just formed the most exclusive club in the Senate, which was, until Monday evening, itself the world's most exclusive club. They are the charter and, presumably exclusive, members of a...