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After all the glowing words surrounding the Senate "compromise" in which the Republicans folded their hand despite holding all the high cards, it is worth taking a look at who won what and why. The biggest winner is Senator John McCain, who once again sold out both principles and party, to the applause of the mainstream media. Not only is he assured of good publicity, he has pulled the rug out from under Majority Leader William Frist, his probable chief rival for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination. Winning a showdown with the Democrats by using the so-called "nuclear option" to...

Black judge's renomination urged 01/11/2003 Associated Press WASHINGTON - Two Missouri Democrats are asking President Bush to renominate the black judge who was the key witness for the opposition during Attorney General John Ashcroft's confirmation hearings. Reps. Dick Gephardt and William Lacy Clay asked the president to appoint Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which will have a vacancy in April. Judge White, nominated in 1997, was the first district court nominee turned down on the floor in four decades. Mr. Ashcroft, then a Missouri senator seeking re-election, called Judge White...