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So, the Dems retreat to regroup; we get three of our most conservative nominees; and we all live to fight another day. That's the bottom line.

That the Dems would vote for cloture to avoid a showdown vote on the nuclear option has been obvious to me for a long time and I have voiced that opinion in many threads.

I think McCain has helped the Dems save face and that is about all. I don't know much about the two sacrificial lambs but I hear they might not have made it anyway. In any case the Pubbies won and the Dems lost. If it wasn't for McCain et al then it would have been a complete and humiliating defeat for Reid and the Dems. He saved them from that. Freepers will never forgive him. In my case, anyone on that stage is ON MY BLACKLIST FOREVER. We won by 3 points when we were a 4 touchdown favorite and way ahead in the 4th quarter.

The behavior of the "Suckup Six" is inexcuseable and unacceptable.

I agree with your assessment, 100%. This is Demo facesaving. Someone should go on DU to see what the take is there; I bet there is severe nashing of teeth.

And with that, I bid you all a good evening, until later.

"If it wasn't for McCain et al then it would have been a complete and humiliating defeat for Reid and the Dems."

Are you sure that Frist had the votes? Let's face it... if these RINOs were actually committed to advancing these nominees, they wouldn't be signing onto the agreement.

I really wonder if perhaps Reid did have the votes of 6 RINOs, but Ben Nelson, Robert Byrd, Mary Landrieu, and Mark Pryor were afraid of their own red state constituencies. And they forced the deal.