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Come on batman, you keep making the assumption that these RINOs are principled Republicans. They are not, never were, and they agreed to let the Democrats save face as they were about to lose. Frist does not have a gun to force them to obey his wishes. The Dems saved face by giving in and saying it was a win. It was an unprincipled loss to give in on the three if they thought they are unfit to sit on the bench.

We still don't know whether the moderate Democrats mean it when they say they will not filbuster except in "extraordinary" circumstances. (I suspect some of them mean it) If they are really saying that they don't want to use filbusters against Judicial Nominees-- then the Republicans get the judges they want. If they are lying, then we will be free to invoke the Nuclear Option. What the media says about it is not the issue anymore, everyone that matters knows they are liberals.

If they are really saying that they don't want to use filbusters against Judicial Nominees-- then the Republicans get the judges they want. If they are lying, then we will be free to invoke the Nuclear Option.

Sorry Robin...those assumptions are too rosy. If you think the same RINO's won't again "compromise" if the leadership tries to change the rule to 51 votes on judges in the future then I'm afraid you've been breathing too much Joker gas.

But you are missing the point: the Rinos have commited to voting agisnt the rule change no matter what the democrats do.

The democrats have langauge in this to filibuster, the RINOS have taken that away from the GOP.

It is a great win for them.

This is a sellout of the GOP by 7 of their own.