[cardinal4]

My sense is that it is finally going to happen.

Not mine. Watch for a last minute deal that sends the "less contrversial" nominees to the floor, while the rest go home. The icing on the cake will be all the face time Reid will get for his "reaching out" and his "finding common ground" and his ability to "bridge the divide"....

[Miss Marple]

I disagree. The President wants an up or down vote. If he wanted to compromise, he wouldn't have sent these 7 nominees up again. Frist will follow the President's lead on this...and they KNOW the conservatives are watching this, as well as the Bolton nomination.

The grass roots are letting themselves be heard. There will be no last-minute compromise. And any Republican who votes against the rule change will be marked for a primary challenge. Period.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

" Watch for a last minute deal that sends the "less contrversial" nominees to the floor, while the rest go home."

See post 69. But the deal they reach will include ALL nominees brought out of commtt. I find it convincing that the dems will be motivated to delay the judgement day till the SCOTUS nominees. But then, like someone posted, if the prez. moves one of these current nominees up whom have already been recently approved (God-willing) that will take a lot of the wind from their sails.

[deport]

Not mine. Watch for a last minute deal that sends the "less contrversial" nominees to the floor, while the rest go home.

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Not mine. The nominees will get an up/down vote. The President is one to be a 'uniter not a divider' when he can but when pushed to the limit he can be hard headed, imo.