To: Fledermaus
If we can't count on Warner, Graham and Dewine now, then we couldn't count on them to invoke nuke option. So we're no worse off, and we sidestepped a terrible defeat which would have put the judicial nominee fiibuster up on a pedestal for the rest of the Bush Presidency. Which would you prefer?
My preference is that at least a few of these RINOs wanted to give the moderate Dems a way out of the mess.
We'll see...
2,043 posted on
05/23/2005 9:32:14 PM PDT by
RobFromGa
(Enact Constitutional Option Now!)
To: RobFromGa
You again are thinking too optimistic about the future by assuming they won't filibuster SCOTUS anyway.
They will. And now we've given them cover to just say "extraordinary circumstances" without even defining what that means.
And I'd rather have gotten NOTHING and taken my chances at the polls in '06 and '08 than make bad deals with liars, cheats and scumbags.
2,052 posted on
05/23/2005 9:38:58 PM PDT by
Fledermaus
(Nothing in this RINO deal guarantees Brown, Owen and Pryor will be CONFIRMED!)
To: RobFromGa
and we sidestepped a terrible defeat
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No, we surrendered. It is better to learn from a defeat than surrender for fear of it.
2,091 posted on
05/23/2005 10:02:37 PM PDT by
TomasUSMC
(FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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