I tend to agree with you. W gets his three 'most extreme' judges, and we can still blast the filibuster. That said, the RNC may get $$$$ from me, but not for the Senate.
Well gee wiz. The President gets three judges. Big whoop. Why doesnt he get ALL OF THEM!
No excuse for this. Some of the GOP spinmeisters are trying to paint this as a victory to try to placate the base. But we're not buying it.
Good plan! Rather than giving to the RNC, pick and choose who you will contribute to. The grassroots really needs to gear up in the Republican primaries to get the wimps out of office, but still maintain the majority.
Only if two of the seven RINOs vote for them.
I'm was so disgusted over this when I heard about it I actually went out and took the Bush sticker off my car. I was pretty disgusted over the border issue but this one takes the cake. I'm not contrbuting this year, not my money or my time.
I don't know if the "moderates" have thought this far ahead or not, but if the three judges who will get a vote are ultimately confirmed, it seems that the "extraordinary circumstances" threshold (imaginary as it may be with the dems) has just been substantially heightened. If these 3 judges were so bad as to cause a filibuster, but now do not create "extraordinary circumstances" it is hard to see how any of the others would do so. If any of them are filibustered, the constitutional option, it seems to me, is back on the table.
All that being said, I would have prefered to proceed with the constitutional option, but apparently some on (or near) the right have gone soft.