Charles -- Thanks for the thoughtful post.
But some of us are having trouble comparing where we are now with where we were before.
We're too busy comparing where we are now with where we would have been today, if RINO's like Graham and DeWine had not gotten so full of themselves.
"We're too busy comparing where we are now with where we would have been today, if RINO's like Graham and DeWine had not gotten so full of themselves."
Thank you. You said it better than I did.
Are ya'll watching Brit's show---
Krauthammer says he thinks the deal is ONLY for those 3 judges and the rest have been thrown out---by the rep weasels...
Easton thinks that the dems won, but also thinks the agreement will not last...
We don't know if the rats would have accepted cloture on these 3 and thereby still maintain the fillibuster. We also don't know if Frist had the 50 votes.
Today we still have the threat, we have an agreement by more moderate rats to refrain and we have 3 guaranteed. I'd say we are better off today than we could have been.
Like it or not, Graham claims certain knowledge that there were FIVE R NOs against Frist - and that there were 4-5 others uncommitted.
If this works as he honestly believes it will, there will be no more filibusters in the 109th, and seven of the eight will get approved, and one defeated, on an up or down vote. Meanwhile, the senate gets business done, like tomorrow's vote on Bolton, that wouldn't occur otherwise.
Where we would be today might well be wondering why Spectre and Voinovich voted with the D's, and Frist lost this vote 48-52. McCain and Chaffee can't be hated more than they already are, but we would have some new targets for hatred.
You don't know, and neither do I, where we would be today.
It is what it is now... and once these three "Neanderthals" get confirmed, the D's are going to have a really tough job fighting on the new ground of what is "too extreme" - I'm looking forward to their trying to satisfy their base, and the American people now.
I'm still NOT really happy about Graham's decision - but I will respect his reasoning
McCain can go off and rot somewhere.