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Either he's a good actor or Mitch McConnell was genuinely amazed by the way the trial-lawyer lobby dictated
terms to Senate Democrats on this week's terrorism insurance vote.

"I've been here 18 years and I can say with total confidence that there's no special interest that completely owns,
lock stock, the Republican conference," the GOP Senator told us yesterday. "But, by golly, I think the Democrats
in the Senate are a wholly owned subsidiary of ATLA (the Association of Trial Lawyers of America).
They ought to be embarrassed."