The alternative -- whatever the five presidents sign this week, and whatever the Democratic Party's left wing in Congress claims -- is the abandonment of democracy in Nicaragua, and with it, the future security not only of Nicaragua but of its neighbors, as well.

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But the wound that stings most for House Democrats might very well be their forced abandonment of their "pay-go" rules, which they had generally adhered to all year.

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