[kcvl]

conservative Republican activists in the key states of Iowa and New Hampshire are already vowing revenge against McCain if he runs for president in 2008

Good!

[Dog]

Liz you trying to cheer me up?

:-)

[Shery]

Well, we'll see, won't we?

[JohnLongIsland]

congress getting things done = more spending and bigger deficit

[mmercier]

All this time sweating in my rad suit, and I knew there was not going to be any blast.

It may be worth it, as I do want to see Priscilla Owens and William Pryor confirmed.

[RushLake]

I think that the image of the press conference that will stick with me longest was when McCain slathered his lips all over the racist bigot democrat Byrd's a$$. When the first George Bush reneged on his "read my lips" position I had a feeling in my gut like a haymaker had landed right then and there that he would not be elected. I have the same type of feeling about Republicans in general after watching the miserable despicable McSwine (and Graham). Beyond that, Frist needs to go for even countenancing such a deal.

[queenkathy]

When I woke up and heard this I thought OH MY Goodness, they folded! They CAVED...What is "extraordinary" mean to a democrat? Of course the WH put a positive spin on it for politics sake but I'm fuming!

[tet68]

And, if the Senate had come to what Democrats called "the nuclear option" — a vote to strip them of filibuster power over judges — all hope for cooperation in the Senate would be over.

The only hope of cooperation was the hope that the seven
dwarves would cooperate with their democrat handlers.

Now we will see real obstruction from the democrats.

And when the shoe is on the other foot?
The democrats will act so fast to change the rule it will
make pubbie heads spin.

McCain and the others must be defeated and in as humiliating
a defeat as possible.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I have a new line for those who brokered this deal: I call them the Dirty Dozen and 2.

[Bullish]

WE cave in and let the filthy lying democrats have their way, but we win?

If we would have stuck to our guns and Frist could have kept the Rinos in line, it would have been the dems that would have caved. They would have had to back down, if we could have held are side together. Frist would have looked like a worthy leader and a champion to conservatives. As it is, we get to witness the demon party crowing about "saving the senate".

I don't see how this was much of a win for conservatives, it looks like more of a victory for 7 Rinos and all the obstructionist democrats.

[barker]

Republican conservatives were livid, fuming about a "cave" by centrists led by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

Count me in as one of these livid Republicans.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

G.O.P. ?????

G. Give into O. Obstructionist P. Party.

[joesbucks]

Let's see. How will this be spun as this was the Presidents idea and his enemies underestimated him again. I bet Rush has the same talk later today after his grim doom and gloom about all this for the past few weeks.

[maryz]

all hope for cooperation in the Senate would be over.

And that would be different from the past five years -- how? What was the last (or first) glimmer of cooperation from Senate dems since 2000?

[bobjam]

We need to make an example of one of the Rinos. It may cost a Senate seat, but it would be well worth it if liberal Republican Senators have a real fear of not winning their primaries.

[niteowl77]

I've come to a few conclusions, in no particcular order:

John McCain is - publicly and privately - a malignant man and who poses the largest danger to whichever party which he claims to belong

Lindsay Graham is a weasely dumpling of a lawyer, and no one should expect him to ever be otherwise

The US Senate is more jealous of its own perogatives than it is of rights guaranteed under the Constitutution

Senators who have real lives and occupations (i.e., Bill Frist) are at a disadvantage in dealing with lifetime politicians

Democrats stuff their party with loyalists beginning at the bottom, and party discipline is not just an abstract term

Primaries, primaries, primaries

Give generously of time and money, but give it wisely... and give it specifically to those who earn it.

Crap, one could go on and on... but McCain and Graham deserve the worst that politics can dish out; this morning, I believe I'd even stand and applaud the ghost of Preston Brooks were he to glide through the wall, smack the living crap out of the both of them and spit on the remaining dozen gutless wonders on the way out.

[LIConFem]

"Armageddon has been averted, and thank God," said Schumer,..."

What a putz head...

Oops... Didn't that get D'amato in trouble? ;o)

[johnny7]

Sorry kid... doesn't cut the smell.

[Lazamataz]

It won't work.

It's still a pig.

[Preachin']

In my opinion, the only real victory would be that the president nominates one of these three judges to the US Supreme Court.</p>

I don't think the democrats could stand against him/her after already passing the candidate through once before.

This may be the president's little trick.