[the anti-liberal]

of moderate Ds and Rs would agree to scuttle some of the nominees - by agreeing not to vote for them

Sounds like the earlier 'compromise' that was floated last week which was turned down. Doubt any compromise will be reached- both sides have already gone on record as "the fight is on".

[Fledermaus]

All GOP senators involved in any "compromise" should be severly punished by the leadership...loss of committees, staffing, offices, campaign help, etc.

I'd even threaten to find and run someone against them in their next election in the primaries. I'll check later, but I wonder how many of these jerks (McCain, et al) are up in 2006 or 2008.