But it could turn out to be an easy day at the office compared with handling the complicated mechanics of the Lords where the Conservatives aren't even close to a majority.
Mr. Affleck's film has a lauded performance from Jeremy Renner and the muscle of a studio, Warner Brothers, behind it, while Ms. Granik's is truly independent, with no stars and a fraction of the budget and viewership (about $6 million at the box office compared with $92 million for "The Town").
Indeed, according to a 2006 study by the Brennan Center for Justice, a Manhattan-based nonprofit group, members of the Senate majority spent an average of $361,143 per office, compared with $197,390 for the average Democrat.
Ask anyone who uses them and the difference between the service at the post office compared with FedEx and UPS and the result will be unanimously in favor of the latter two despite postal employees receiving substantially higher salaries and benefits.
10.10am: Blair says the Metropolitan police is a fundamentally different environment to work compared with Surrey, and Thames Valley police had just two or three staff in the press office compared with 70 staff in the Met.
The New York Times has calculated that 78% of the more moderate half of the Republican caucus in the Senate in 2007 has left office, compared with just 39% of the conservatives.
To evaluate the actual cost difference in performing Essure hysteroscopic sterilization in the office compared with ambulatory surgery using laparoscopic sterilization in the operating room.
The director had much the same confidence in James Stewart, mostly leaving him to do his own thing; and well he might, given that Stewart's presence in a Hitchcock film meant an extra million dollars at the box office compared with Grant (or so he told the actor James Mason).
But, like the American version of "The Office" compared with its British counterpart, Ms. London is gently mocking rather than harsh.
And they show only one strong quarter — one with a growth rate above 3.2 percent — in the president's first three years in office, compared with six such quarters in the earlier estimate.
