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Harry Reid knows he's in the cat-bird seat here and has the leverage to negotiate seating both senators, and saving face in the meantime re: Blago.

Cornyn Says It Again: Senate GOP Will Block The Seating Of Al Franken 2009

The populist tradition in the nineteenth century, based on Jeffersonian visions of decentralized political and economic power, was a staunch opponent of finance capitalism, the the Wall Street system which has been in the cat-bird seat since the Civil War.

A Solution to the Financial Crisis 2009

But if Chambliss loses the runoff, Franken wins the recount, and Stevens either loses or gets replaced by a Dem in a special election, then Joe's back in the cat-bird seat.

In Private Meeting, Reid Tells Lieberman That It's Unlikely He'll Keep Committee Slot 2009

The battle continues, with white male workers in the cat-bird seat.

CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2008 2008

ROMANS: If you save the money and you have good credit, you are kind of in the cat-bird seat where there aren't any bidders at all on these homes.

CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2008 2008

ROMANS: If you save the money and you have good credit, you are kind of in the cat-bird seat where there aren't any bidders at all on these homes.

CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2008 2008

Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the rest of that bunch who like to call themselves the 'Vulcans' may be running things, but Bush is perched in the cat-bird seat, and he's where the buck stops.

FOOL'S GOAL 2006

CROWLEY: The good part about the cat-bird seat is you can be above it all.

CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2004 2004

Try to catch the sun by providing at least one east- or west-facing “cat-bird seat.”

250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998

Try to catch the sun by providing at least one east- or west-facing “cat-bird seat.”

250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You INGRID NEWKIRK 1998