Bipartisan compromise, my ass
Now, when I read about this last night, I thought "golly, that's great. We get to keep the filibuster." But now that I read it again, I don't think we really won anything, and I'm not sure making this agreement was the right way to go.
I mean, the three evil judges, Pryor, Owens and Brown will most likely be confirmed. And Democrats didn't want that. The other evil judges weren't even part of the agreement, so who knows what could happen there, but seeing as they are not quite as evil and the Democrats agreed to only use the filibuster in "extraordinary" circumstances, they will probably be confirmed as well. So the Democrats lose on all counts.
Now according to most of the stuff I read, the Democrats had the necessary votes to avert the nuclear option. But then instead of letting Frist go forward with his sinister plan and failing miserable, the Democrats caved and gave the Republicans everything they wanted? What kind of a compromise is that?
And now, if there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, we could have the exact same discussion again in a few months. Bush nominates Ashcroft, then Frist executes the nuclear option and bam! We have a circus freak for a Supreme Court Justice. But then, if the Democrats had the votes to avert the nuclear option now, one can only hope they would also have the votes then. But who knows? I just hope the Senate Democrats didn't miss their chance to shut down Frist's silly un-American power-grabby plan and put him in his place.
And Senator Joseph I. Lieberman declared, "In a Senate that's become increasingly partisan and polarized, the bipartisan center held."
The bipartisan center held? Huh? What? Am I missing something?
UPDATE: Well it looks like there are a whole lot of opinions out there on this. There's a GOP schmuck who is Oh, So disappointed. Pissed off Paticia from Blondesense thinks they are just procrastinating, not compromising. And a commenter at Washington Monthly heard Lindsey Graham say on MSNBC last night that at least one of the trifecta of Brown, Pyror and Owen won't get confirmed (the suspense is killing me. Which one is it?).
I mean, the three evil judges, Pryor, Owens and Brown will most likely be confirmed. And Democrats didn't want that. The other evil judges weren't even part of the agreement, so who knows what could happen there, but seeing as they are not quite as evil and the Democrats agreed to only use the filibuster in "extraordinary" circumstances, they will probably be confirmed as well. So the Democrats lose on all counts.
Now according to most of the stuff I read, the Democrats had the necessary votes to avert the nuclear option. But then instead of letting Frist go forward with his sinister plan and failing miserable, the Democrats caved and gave the Republicans everything they wanted? What kind of a compromise is that?
And now, if there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, we could have the exact same discussion again in a few months. Bush nominates Ashcroft, then Frist executes the nuclear option and bam! We have a circus freak for a Supreme Court Justice. But then, if the Democrats had the votes to avert the nuclear option now, one can only hope they would also have the votes then. But who knows? I just hope the Senate Democrats didn't miss their chance to shut down Frist's silly un-American power-grabby plan and put him in his place.
And Senator Joseph I. Lieberman declared, "In a Senate that's become increasingly partisan and polarized, the bipartisan center held."
The bipartisan center held? Huh? What? Am I missing something?
UPDATE: Well it looks like there are a whole lot of opinions out there on this. There's a GOP schmuck who is Oh, So disappointed. Pissed off Paticia from Blondesense thinks they are just procrastinating, not compromising. And a commenter at Washington Monthly heard Lindsey Graham say on MSNBC last night that at least one of the trifecta of Brown, Pyror and Owen won't get confirmed (the suspense is killing me. Which one is it?).
posted by cookie christine @ 5/24/2005
1 Comments:
At May 24, 2005,
Alicia Morgan said…
We lost. It was a lose-lose proposition to begin with. They get their worst judges in, and we're still in the same standoff as before. If these nutbags are not 'extraordinary circumstances', who are?
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