Friggin' UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Once again, the GOP has proven that it DOES NOT know how to govern. This DEAL scuttles some of the President's nominees and it gives the Dems carte blanche whenever "extraordinary" circumstances warrant. It is a total defeat for the GOP.
The GOP deserves whatever bad fate befalls it. Frist won't get the monination as a result of accepting this betrayal--and he doesn't deserve it. The good news is that this also queers the deal for McCain. He will NEVER be forgiven by the GOP Primary electorate for his collaboration with the Socialists.
Defeat grabbed from the jaws of victory. Only the GOP is capable of such a feat.
Got a solicitation from the RNC. said I would make make my mind up about donating after the "nuclear" vote. Looks like it is made up for me.
They may have agreed to vote on Owen, which moots the current cloture motion. And then we get on with the rest of the nominees.
And then we get other nominees out of committee and onto the floor.
ANd the issue hangs in the background, until some group of Senators decides to abuse parliamentary procedure to violate the Constitution.
No more money. Period.
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I guess McCain is too gutless to twist that knife he plunged into President Bush's back.
Ol' John Warner does it again. What a sorry POS.
14 out of 50 and no frist... sounds like somebody is setting up the dems for a bigger fall later...
My concern is that the Republicans on the compromise are all the RINOs that I've never trusted. I still don't trust them.
A "dry run," where the GOP threatens the nuclear option but doesn't deliver it (because the DEMs approve cloture) will work in DEM favor. How? Some GOP will take the failure to execute the nuclear option as a GOP failure. They've been conditioned to think that Frist has the trigger! Also, the build up of debate for days, with no release except the vote on the nominee, will wear the Senators down.
Pull this a couple times, and the entire public will tire of what it sees as "a charade." All of that leads,potentially, to "more care" in choosing SCOTUS nominees.
Can someone tell me what this means for the impending Supreme Court fight? Can we count on these Democrats to support a Bush nominee to the Supreme Court?
McCain being the media darling again. Even Fox News is praising the "compromise." And people think Fox is conservative. Blah.
The United States Senate is simply a hundred ladies in waiting. Of course some are just ladies and long ago gave up waiting, Bobby "KKK" Byrd and Orrin "Church Lady" Hatch come to mind. But the Pubbies have the ladies to take Hatch's place such as Mikey DeWine who is a dead ringer for the guy who played the geek in American Graffitti. And of course, the Democratic bench is very long because they have all the Rinos sitting with them. There may be 12 Senators in front of the camera, but if you are quiet you can hearing the sound of 88 gutless senators sighing louder than Al Gore at a presidential debate. The Senate is an utter disgrace albeit a bipartisan disgrace.
They could call it the French Connection.
Once again they have surrendered in the face of underwhelming odds.
when the RNSCC looks for Republican candidates, one of the character traits they look for is major candyass
Clucking Capons Capitulate to Communists Coercion, Courts Compromised.
Whatever "deal" has been reached has to work its way through the Senate in the form of votes. CSPAN-2 is quiet right now =:-O
McCain looked at happy as Bill O'Reilly in a whorehouse with a fistfull of money and a shopping basket full of fully charged vibrators.
We don't have the details yet, so I'm not going to go off on anybody. But IF there is a defeat here....IF the Republicans have handed the Dems a sword....then the responsibility lies squarely on President Bush. Not for a moment do I believe that any compromise can be reached without his being consulted, and without his input.
What a sham, what a disgrace