[Jack Black]

Good spin on an ok outcome. Bottom line, both guys blinked. The "extraordinary circumstances" clause = when Bush nominates a anti-abortion conservative for the Supreme Court. No question. You can just hear Barbara Boxer squeaking about it already!

[swampfox98]

I love your Freeper name. You'll last about five minutes. Republican stupidity and illegal immigration are sacred cows here.

[goldstategop]

Sen. John Cornyn is right about conservatives being unhappy with the deal 14 Senators concocted yesterday to save the filibuster. Still he's right about two things: their will be a vote and intellectually, the Democrats filibuster position is in shambles. The minority party could saved itself a headache by never preventing these people from coming to a vote. And now they have to allow a vote on people they previously disparaged as "extreme." While I don't think this is a deal we ought to accept, I also do think the Democrats' days of being a party with a history of great causes is over. They can't bring themselves to stand on principle - any more than the RINOs can and in the long run, this donnybrook will strengthen the conservative position. We are winning in the arena of ideas.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Enterprise]

I like his reasoning. However, Democrats caught in a lie - are still liars who don't give a hang about getting caught.

[RAY]

" **** if a Republican minority were blocking a Democratic president's judicial nominees, nearly everyone, from lawmakers to commentators, who is now passionately defending or denouncing Senate talkathons, would be taking the opposite position. This whole thing reeks of hypocrisy.

The above words by Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer are so true. Unfortunately that part of the public that makes voting decisions based upon sound bits don't seem realize the above.

[mikeus_maximus]

Moreover, by forbidding future filibusters of judicial nominations except under “extraordinary circumstances,” the agreement establishes a new benchmark for future conduct in the United States Senate — namely, that other qualified judges who are firmly committed to the law, like Owen, Brown, and Pryor, deserve an up-or-down vote, too.

This argument naively assumes that the Dems must act logically consistent or the MSM and the American public will hold them accountable. That never happens.

This was our best chance to defeat the Dems and MSM in their PR campaign on the fillibuster tactic. The GOP has set us up for a loss on the S Ct. nominee.

[Tax-chick]

later

[Sloth]

I wish Cornyn was the majority leader.

[xzins]

The Rinos caved in.

They did not define "extraordinary circumstances."

[El Gato]

Something I just don't understand, if a judge can be opposed for "promotion" based on prior rulings, why can't sitting judges be impeached for bad behavior in their rulings? I guess it actually depends on whose ox is being gored.