I heard on the radio today the McCain is going to have enough moderate dems join the republicans when a cloture vote is called up on each of the stalled nominees, they'l pass each nominee but yet still retain the 60 votes needed to end the filibuster.
I don't like it.
Neither do I. Nuke the thng and get it over with. McCain and the whole "moderate" bunch of RINOS need to be put out to pasture. I wonder if they are on the take or if they have some really foul goods on them. Some of them, like Snowe, I think are Rat plants anyway.
I don't like it either, but it is a big victory nevertheless, if all the President's nominees get on the Circuit Courts. That's where most of the big legal decisions are actually made, since the Supreme Court takes few cases.
All this does is kick the can down the road for future Democrat filibusters, of Supreme Court justices, etc., but when that time comes, it will again be time to force the nuclear option.
Two words: Miguel Estrada.