I disagree with John B. Stohlton's view (Readers' Forum, May 25) that the Senate's filibuster compromise is, in his words, "cynical and disgraceful." On the contrary, this deal is in the very best tradition of American governance. The Senate was intended by the Founders to be a deliberative body, above partisan rancor and momentary popular enthusiasms. And the art of statecraft is compromise.
To suggest that political compromises are somehow morally suspect is nonsense. After all, our nation is governed by a compromise document, the product of an ideologically divided committee, a document both sides thought deeply flawed, but which all parties defended as probably the best that could be done, given the political realities of the day. It's called the Constitution, and it's worked out rather well.
Eric Samuelsen
Provo