Analysis of a Sellout

ABP ^ | 5/24/05 | ABP

[crushkerry]

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[PilloryHillary]

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[beckaz]

I must be missing something. I thought that the filibuster had always been about extraordinary circumstances. What's been gained here? (other than CYA for RINOs)

[.cnI redruM]

McCain now runs as 'The real uniter.' He just fired a shot across the bow of everyone to his right in the 2008 primaries. He's now 'the reasonable' GOP candidate.

I hope the party apparatus in both Iowa and New Hampshire hangs this man by his family jewels.

[handy]

Will every judicial nominee get an up or down vote? Since the answer is "No", we lose.

I don't feel any better about this deal today than I did last night.

[hispanichoosier]

First, and most obviously, there is no guarantee of up or down votes for all nominees, something that was a non-negotiable to us.

Up/down votes on all nominees would be great, but I'll take up/down on 7 key judges if it means that we won't have to take the barrage of criticism from the MSM because we somehow altered the genetic makeup of the Senate. Unfortunately, the vast majority of sheeple would have heard the MSM and believed what they would have said about us, much like whoat occurred in '98 when we got slaughtered in the mid-term elections.

[stitches1951]

Care to guess who will be running in 2008? I still think he was "turned" at the Hanoi Hilton!!!

[Brett66]

it gives the RINO's an easy "out" not to trigger the Constitutional Option

Yep, it's just another path to the next betrayal of conservatives.

[henkster]

This isn't the leadership I wanted from the GOP.

At the national level, there are no Republicans or Democrats. It's only Socialist Party A and Socialist Party B. There's no more difference between being a Republican or a Democrat than there is being a fan of the Red Sox or the Yankees.

[traderrob6]

We have gained some things and lost nothing.....what's the beef? the basics

[libstripper]

Never in history has a group of RINOS so cravenly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. They have created an unmitigated disaster for the party when there could have been an unparalleled victory.

[alicewonders]

Yes, we're still getting wheels spinning in mud.

[An Old Marine]

I like the comparison to Neville Chamberlain. Its appropriate.

More to the point its time to teach some of these traitors a lesson. No money, no support.

Let them go to their precious moderates when re-election time comes.

[PilloryHillary]

"I don't feel any better about this deal today than I did last night."

After having more time to think about this mess...I'm more angry than I was last night!

[Tom Bombadil]

He's now 'the reasonable' GOP candidate.

McCain is toast and so are the rest of these sanctimonious "intellectuals". They have awakened a grizzly close by, and all they have for protection are cross-over democrats and a translucent media.

[OB1kNOb]

History records once again that there are no great "moderate" leaders. Never has been, never will be. They are gutless wonders that stand for nothing.

[RedEyeJack]

Ok...

Votes on the first three should go today... We get to see who is for and who is against jurist the Dems have label led as "extremist". Say they get confirmed... What then?

Frist brings the next group to the floor and the Dems filibuster? Will there be another 100 hours of debate on them? Will there be a cloture vote. Or it goes straight to a vote and the Republican "compromisers" vote against their party based on the deal? There is a lot of ground still to be covered and it sounds like all the crowing was premature. Frist needs to be more forceful in saying that this compromise was a "deal" that is not supported by the leadership so its enactment is not the responsibility of those Republicans who were not party to the deal... This is going to continue to be entertaining.

[CivilWarguy]

McCain has blown his chances for the presidency once again. Here's a guy that SHOULD be a natural candidate for the GOP. Even his opponents respect his valiant service to his country, and his stands on many issues is acceptable. Yet there's a reason actual Republicans voted overwelmingly against him in 2000. Like Darth Vader, he's been seduced by the "dark side"--the MSM--and Republican voters know it.

[handy]

McCain is toast and so are the rest of these sanctimonious "intellectuals". They have awakened a grizzly close by, and all they have for protection are cross-over democrats and a translucent media.

I certainly hope you are right. People need to get mad @ McCain & his buddies.