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I've been defending Senator Frist for two years from attacks by Freepers who claim this is all his fault and he has no spine. It does appear that he never had 50 Senators that would be willing to go along with this. In the next Congress, he should.

Also, the Filibuster is not applicable in all cases today. The Filibuster cannot be used to stop budget resolutions.

I also wonder if the President will adopt Roosevelt's thinking when the latter appointed Senator Black, and nominate a very strong agent for change that the Senate would just have to accept. For example, if the President were to nominate Janice Rogers Brown for CJ, I can't see DiFi and BaBo filibustering a very popular black woman from California.

As an aside, my daughter is taking a college-level government class and has her final today, so we talked SCOTUS appointments. She was four when Clarence Thomas was nominated, so she has no memory of the vicious battle of those days. I told her that if she thought this past election was brutal, just wait for the SCOTUS hearings -- especially if a conservative nominee is set to replace a liberal Justice or a confused mediocrity like Sandra Dee "European Law" O'Connor.

For example, if the President were to nominate Janice Rogers Brown for CJ, I can't see DiFi and BaBo filibustering a very popular black woman from California.

I bet President Bush 41 thought that when he nominated Clarence Thomas. If the justice is pro-life, pro-traditional family, or for goodness sake's a Christian, then the scraping sound you'll hear are the knives sharpening. The libs will happily burn them at the stake.