One of my favorite movies is a minor Clint Eastwood film: Kelly's Heroes. It's a weird combination of war escapade and satire, mocking both the military and the counter-culture, Westerns, and movies.. Eastwood leads a motley crew through German lines into a town to rob a bank of German gold. However a squad of German tanks has also learned of the gold, so the good guys and bad guys face off in the town, eventually reaching an impasse. That's the moment at which Don Rickles, playing a corrupt supply sergeant, persuades Telly Savalas that it's time to do a deal with the Germans to split the gold; as he describes it, a "deal deal".
That's what Speaker Ryan did in the closing days of Congress, a deal deal. That's what some Republicans, particularly Paul Hinderaker at Powerline, don't understand--politics as the art of the deal deal.
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