The Republicans in the senate are a complete joke. How do you take a clear mandate from last year's election into this congress, and get in this situation? UNFRIGGIN' REAL!!
They are, to the Democrats, useful idiots.
They continue to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and could literally screw up a steel ball with a rubber mallet!
The joke is the fact that the Republican caucus has 55 members, but when push comes to shove there are the Olympia Snowes and the John McCains and the Arlen Specters in that number. It's not fair to Frist to complain about him when they - along with the actual Democrats - are the actual problem. Not Frist's fault - or Rick Santorum's - if the actual count of Republicans is lower than the nominal number.The Democrats style breaking their filibuster of judicial appointments "the nuclear option." In fact, their filibuster tactic applied to all appeals courts is itself the nuclear option - because if the Republicans did the same thing if the Democrats had the White House, there would be no appeals court judges confirmed again. Ever. And that is what the RINOs should be told will be the consequence of any failure of the constitutional action.
What the Constitution requires is constitutional, not "nuclear"
- and it ain't an "option."The abuse of the filibuster will undermine the filibuster. The Democrats threaten to withhold unanimous consent to normal business operation of the Senate if the Republicans take the constitutional action. That would undermine the tradition of the majority's deferring to the minority on anything.