[TomasUSMC]

Where does the buck stop. At W's desk. Period. He should have led the way and explained to America that the democrats where trying to STOP THE VOTE. That dems were stopping WOMEN from getting these posts. That the Filibuster was used to keep Blacks down in the Jim Crow South.

But no.

Well maybe we will get our people nominated anyway. Even so, we will have lost the opportunity to get rid of a stupid rule - the filibuster. It has never served this nation well and it won't in the future either.

[FreeReign]

Even so, we will have lost the opportunity to get rid of a stupid rule - the filibuster.

What opportunity? Do you think that we had an opportunity to get rid of the filibuster?

We've got at least seven RINO's in the senate and probably another half dozen more. What is so Freeping hard to understand about this? Why is everybody so Freeping surprised?

No, let's blame Frist, let's blame the entire Republican party, let's wreck everything we've worked for, curl up in a corner and hide from the truth.

Conservatives don't have a majority. We're not too far away. Maybe, soon, in an election cycle or two, we will get a majority -- but we don't have one yet.

Look at our roster of R Senators. Gee what a surprise. We didn't win.

[Cboldt]

Even so, we will have lost the opportunity to get rid of a stupid rule - the filibuster.

There are two ways to zap that bugger. One is a head on attack of the rule, likely tried in January of odd-numbered years, at the start of a Congress.

The other way requires a dysfunctional group of Senators who refuse to vote. Once they agree to vote, the issue evaporates. The good guys "lost the opportunity" because the DEMs decided to vote.

And the DEMs didn't promise not be silly on another nominee. We'll probably get to have this fun again sometime soon. Bolton and Myers are on the Executive Calendar.