No one. Albeit, unwittingly.
We are right where we've always been, in spite of the idiot 14.
If the Dimms filibuster in the future...we nuke them. And, we have the votes to do it...probably more tonight than last night.
The only change is two nominees without a hope of winning 51 votes have been taken off the table...and three Conservative judges are going to the bench.
I agree. Look at it this way: the Senate and especially the Democrats were going to be put through the meat grinder for any post-Constitutional option obstruction. They avoid that train wreck, but all the momentum remains with the GOP. W should now put up a steady stream of conservative judges. The Dems should not dare to filibuster a qualified nominee. Because what could possibly be extraordinary about more nominees, whether or not they are minorities or women, that are no more conservative than Brown and Owen??
You're kidding right? Months of threats, yelling, screaming and running about, and in the end, they hadn't the guts to pull the trigger.
Trusting republican or democrat politicians is a fools game.