[Fledermaus]

No, we had ALL. The ability to vote up or down is more important than caving.

When your car breaks down do you pay the mechanic for fixing it 85% of the way?

[furquhart]

If that's all that can be done.

The most important thing is that we got Brown, Pryor, and Owen. They're all probable Supreme Court picks.

In truth, what this deal means is that it's virtually certian that Janice Rogers Brown will be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court before January 20, 2009.

Probably not the next pick, but probably the one after. With a year or so on the Appeals court.

[RobFromGa]

Come on batman, you keep making the assumption that these RINOs are principled Republicans. They are not, never were, and they agreed to let the Democrats save face as they were about to lose. Frist does not have a gun to force them to obey his wishes. The Dems saved face by giving in and saying it was a win. It was an unprincipled loss to give in on the three if they thought they are unfit to sit on the bench.

We still don't know whether the moderate Democrats mean it when they say they will not filbuster except in "extraordinary" circumstances. (I suspect some of them mean it) If they are really saying that they don't want to use filbusters against Judicial Nominees-- then the Republicans get the judges they want. If they are lying, then we will be free to invoke the Nuclear Option. What the media says about it is not the issue anymore, everyone that matters knows they are liberals.