[Coop]

Senate RATs will come back with their tail between their legs begging us to let them vote for Estrada.

Well, you're a bit of an optimist. I personally think they'd scream bloody murder about how this proves President Bush just wants to stack the courts with staunch conservative radicals. Then the sheeple may well buy into their hysterical arguments. Most voters simply tune out the judicial nominee process, and the Dems know it.

[Prysson]

I think you have the correct analysis of this. It is a bad strategy in my opinion.

My question is why we should have to use such foolish chicanery to get our guys on the bench. The filibuster is not a constitutional action. It is merely a Senate rule. If the Democrats want to use senate rules to abuse the constitution than change the rules. Get rid of the filibuster.

Or at the very least force them to really filibuster.

The one thing that truely annoys me about all of this is the pansy approach to politics that senate republicans tend to take. In a time when Democrats are playing hardball why do we keep pitching them softball lobs. We do we cave on every issue every single time. Why are we not forcing the democrats to live with the real consequences of the positions they take.

Poor leadership on the senate side in my opinion.

I personally do not see Frist as much of an improvement in that regard over Lott.