And you think Reid would not have rammed these nominees through before the end of the year anyway? He has the votes to do so at anytime.
"And you think Reid would not have rammed these nominees through before the end of the year anyway? He has the votes to do so at anytime."
Yes, he's had the votes.
But that's not the question. The question is: Did he have the time?
Say, we haven't seen you out here in Fort Fungus in awhile. You going to do another grand tour of the West any time again? Give the word and we'll keep a spot warm on the street corner for you! :-)
No, actually it's sad to say, but there haven't been any Operation Infinite Freeps out here in ages. The first big round of FR-related street corner activism out here was in Nov-Dec '00 against the Sore-Loserman Gang's attempts to "change election laws after votes are cast but not yet counted". It was great for the first time to meet in the flesh all these Fellow Freepers!
Then as you know we were out here again starting in Oct 2001, for years and years, virtually all of that Freeptime spent across the street from the Great Unwashed Hordes of Bushhaters.
But starting in Jan 2009, when their Holy One The Obamessiah was in absolute control of the universe and the sea levels started to go down and the stars were lined up with the foam Greek temple pillars in Denver and the Mideast wars were days away from ending and Gitmo was hours away from closing and the Age of Aquarius was dawning again .... the numbers across the street diminished dramatically until they were completely gone within a couple of months. And with no "whites of the enemy's eyes" and no signs dissing our troops to face against, the aging VFW members on our side, who had always outnumbered us Freepers anyway, no longer had the drive to go out there week after week. I was finally the last one standing on either side, and then I was gone.
But the great memories of those times are still there!