A group of Senators can hold considerable power. Of course, the constitutional option's off the table, but so is the filibuster. No, the filibuster is not off the table. It is on the table because anyone Bush nominates to SCOTUS who is to the right of Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg or thereabouts will be labeled an extremely extreme extremist, and will be filibustered due to extraordinary circumstances. Note the spineless RINOS did not leave themselves an out of "no constitutional option except under extraordinary circumstances", only their masters, the Dems get that out.
That's true. But tell me: having conceded three judges they labeled "extreme," the Democrats now have to tell their base and the rest of the country what makes equally conservative SCOTUS nominees "extreme." If the Democrats thought these people shouldn't get a vote, they shouldn't have made a deal. They should have let the Republicans get their constitutional option and then run on the issue of extreme Republican judges in '06. That would have been the principled thing to do. I can't imagine over on DU they're taking this well. Its as much as a betrayal of them as many here perceive it to be a betrayal of us.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)