As far as the Senate confirmation process is concerned, nothing has changed in the last two weeks, two months, or two years . . . except that three Bush nominees will face an up-or-down vote and will likely be confirmed -- probably by wide margins.
For the life of me, I can't understand how this amounts to a scenario where "the GOP got screwed on this one."
You might ask how long W has been in the White House and how many years this logjam has affected his ability to place judges on appellate courts and how many years he has left. I'm not so much angry about this weeks' "compromise" as I am over the lost opportunities for conservatives.