What you are "missing" is the gore that makes political sausage. Sen. Frist traded SCR for 4 SC justices. OK, that sux. President Bush will veto SCR. OK, that's cool.
After the dust settles, no *human* SCR (animal SCR has always been legal) and 4 new originalist SC Justices.
Pro-life wins. Conservatives win. RINOs get to be praised by the liberal talking heads for backing SCR. Dems get to portray Conservatives as anti-science.
Everybody wins, just at different levels.
If they were... what an Achilles Heel!!! If they sucked into this scenario hook, line and sinker... That would be stupendous!!! Hey! Rove is good, but nobody is this good!!! (grin)(you got me wonderin, however, but I sure am skeptical)
What you're really sayin is that there really is NO predictability in D.C. politics and our whole system is designed around feinting sell-outs and such... right? (I'm growing from skepticism to cynicism as I type this)
Did you happen to catch the McLaughlin Group on PBS this weekend? Those people are gettin spookier than Art Bell!!! They touched on this subject, too. I guess one could go to PBS.org and review the program if one even wanted to. It's actually getting quite amusing! I like to refer to it as "The Political Gong Show!"
"Robert Klein II, chairman of the state's stem cell institute, said he feared Frist would allow the Senate to approve restrictions that would "handicap or destroy" stem cell studies showing promise in treating and curing disease."