[nathanbedford]

Well, well well, a thoughtful piece that does not blame Frist for laying the predicate which led to this debacle. Frist never had the votes as Levin acknowledges.

The fault is with McCain, that jerk Lindsey Graham and the rest as well as with the President who did not exploit his bully pulpit and arouse the country against the filibuster concept and intimidate the Senate into good behavior.

Now we have a nominee who is a cipher, who moves the national debate not one centimeter toward a proper understanding of judicial review. At best, we get lucky and get a reliable vote. But we set no standard against which a democrat president will have to contend.

[Cboldt]

Well, well well, a thoughtful piece that does not blame Frist for laying the predicate which led to this debacle. Frist never had the votes as Levin acknowledges.

Frist has the votes for some Circuit Court nominations. Graham and DeWine are on record, naming names of judges that Reid would filibuster, that they would vote for the nuclear option.

[Mister Baredog]

Now we have a nominee who is a cipher, who moves the national debate not one centimeter toward a proper understanding of judicial review.

Gee I thought the Roberts hearings were very enlightening in that regard.

That's not what you want, you want the bloody fight, admit it. LOL.

Now we have a nominee who is a cipher

Could we at least hear from her before we judge her, that would seem fair to me?

[el_texicano]

The lame stream media unfortunately is what most people listen to even today. This same media that would give wide voice and fawning over to Bill "pants down" Clintoon, this same media would do EVERYTHING it could to stifle that bully pulpit when Bush tries to use it. Even Fox is pretty lame in that regard.