I understand what your saying, but to those of us in flyover country all this means is that we will hold our fire while the Republicans sell us down the river again next time and we're told to suck it up again! No, make no mistake, we had the Democrats on the ropes and we let them go. They will now come back emboldened and beat the snot out of us, and the media will gleefully help them.
The Democrats had NO position. They were in the wrong. They dragged out this whole charade. They held no cards but bluffed their way to stealing the dealer blind.
Do you really think the Democrats wanted to go on record and national TV to argue against Pricella Owens? Do you really think the Democrats wanted to go on record and vote against Janice Brown? Of course they didn't. They were scared to death that they might have had to do that, but thanks to the gang of 7, the Republicans saved the Democrats from their self-destruction.
This is an outrage. We have been sold down the river!
You're right on target with this. The squishiness of republicans is astounding. I think it's funny how you've got so many people trying to spin this into a win for the pubbies. I intend to remind everyone over and over again as the next general election comes up exactly how useless they are when it comes to actually standing up for a constitutional issue.
We really didn't, and that's the problem.
Until we have a reliable 60 votes in the Senate (like the Democrats had for almost half a century between the 30s and the late 90s), we won't have the Democrats "on the ropes."
The only rational, unemotional, and workable solution is get out there and work hard to increase the number of reliable conservative votes in the Senate in 2006 and 2008.
AMEN to your post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!