Here's why it's a bad deal.
Frist was right to make the fight over female judges. The strategy was to force the vote for Owen or Brown, who would be so much harder for the MSM to demonize. Now the Byrd option will be fought over a white male, which the dems think they have a better chance of defeating.
Frist's carefully chosen high ground has been pulled out from under him.
It's a disgrace.
Your right that is why the RINO's and Dems made the deal. Real Republican lose out here.
They will then sell the same rug again to the rinos.
The deal at least gets Owen and Brown to 3rd base. If either is nominated to the SCOTUS, then Democrats will have a hard time filibustering them, because they were already approved. The deal is not that bad. If Brown gets to the SCOTUS, it will be a MAJOR victory for Bush and vicariously, the GOP, IMO.
That is exactly right.
The RINOS sold out the party.
This will teach Frist to either vote fast or bring the hammer down on these sonsabitches when it comes to Senate campaign money. The problem is that none of the quisling caucus, the Gang of Fourteen, seems to be up for reelection soon, and those who do have to consider it in 2006 would probably retire anyway if they faced real opposition.
We're screwed again.
I am sick of it. Where do we go from here?
I can't imagine what the point of going to the Constitution or Libertarian parties is. No chance of media exposure except as loopy third parties there. And I can't see giving any more money to the GOP until it stops being the "big-government-but-slower-and-more-efficiently party."
This was the test, and they failed. Three judges that would have been confirmed, and in the process ended the filibuster, humiliated the Rat base, and set up the Supreme Court nominees? Bah. Instead we have the Gang of Fourteen selling out the country and the DU is probably ecstatic.