(Guess this is as good a place as any for a first post):
The Republicans gave up nothing. We get our up or down vote and maintain the status quo sans Dem obstruction. We just allowed the Dems to save face by permitting them a facade of a victory. There is no substance to the "agreement" at all.
Someone please explain to me what we gave up. We got everything we want and gave zilch. The constitutional/nuclear option is still on the table the next time the Dems pull the filibuster crap on judicial picks.
As the article says, we lost 5 judges last year, two were arbitrarily axed by this "compromise" and more are likely to be lost. How can you say we lost nothing? We've been losing this issue for almost 5 years now. Who in the Senate should give "advice and consent," a majority, a minority, or a super-minority? If you said a super-minority then you are happy. Everyone else is mad.
Only if you don't give a rap about up or down votes on every nominee. Only if it is fine with you to let the Senate Democrats (aided by RINOs) usurp the president's constitutional prerogative to nominate candidates to the judiciary (and not from a list drawn up and approved by People for the American Way or the A.C.L.U.)
What are you talking about? There were ten nominations being held up by the Rats. We only got 3 votes. That's 30%, not a victory in my book, for sure!