REPUKES BLINKED

[Proud2BAmurkin]

we won.

[mourningdove92]

1. I agree.

[CatWoman]

2. so do I!!!

[Rowdyboy]

18. Preacher Dobson and Sen Frist are humiliated and the filibuster lives

to fight another day. I'm okay with it!

[Booster]

21. Catwoman, you've never been wrong before, so I'm going to

trust you are right this time. Any little win we can get is a huge win with the current government.

[yankeedem]

3. Frist loses

but Americans also lost...... Frist gets everything he wanted without getting the credit.

[Mandate My Ass]

4. you nailed it

such a big price to pay....:eyes:

[stopbush]

5. Within three weeks, the MSM will be saying that the DEMS lost for

threatening to use the nuclear option. The whole thing will be reversed and the Dems blamed. Count on it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Absolutely

Every DUer claiming that we lost is completely wrong and blind to the big picture. Simple as that.

[merh]

8. Please clue a cube rat in

Please

:shrug:

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Bigger picture?

These judges getting through? You know they will be. Sorry but I think I like having the access to the Constiution and Bill of Rights, don't you?

[vi5]

14. Well, hopefully someone explains it to me...

Because this du'er fails to see how we won. Oh great we get to keep the fillibuster in 'extreme circumstances'? According to who? To my mind a power mad political party that got all of their nominations but 7 and want to destroy senate tradition because of it is an extreme circumstance.

You actually trust these idiots on the other side of the aisle to keep their word and not throw another hissy fit when a supreme court nominee comes down the pike? You honestly believe that this is going to be framed in the media as anything other than a republican victory? Yes, Frist will be cast as a pariah and loser in this but they will frame it as the moderate wing of the republican party getting credit and use it to pontificate about how the moderate wing of the republican party REALLY calls the shots.

[bonzotex]

22. the big picture?

The Senate becomes a windy rubber stamping agency now? Democrats won't cause a fuss unless it's something really bad? Like what? How bad does legislation or judge have to be now? What keeps the repugs from just doing this again when Bush nominates some wingnut fruitcake to the SCOTUS? We filibuster, because we "won" this great battle...The Republicans in the Senate will refrain from changing the rules then? Meanwhile Bush gets 7 more right wing activist judges. We don't gain jack here. We look weak.

[vi5]

7. No, we didn't...

Who do you think is going to get credit for this "compromise"? Dems? Or "mavericks" like McCain?

[Lex]

9. Frist has EGG on his FACE bigtime.

There is no doubt about that.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. How?

Don't see it. As I see it we're fucked. Now Bush knows he can put through the Patriot Act and Patriot Act 2 and whatever the hell he wants. Welcome to facisim.

[Lex]

11. We can still filibuster.

That's a good thing.

[ClintonTyree]

15. In "extreme" cases.........

who sets the parameters as to "extreme"? The Pukes? I doubt it's the Dems.

[vi5]

17. Yeah, when they say we can fillibuster?

Who determines what "extreme circumstances" are? I'm pretty far from being a member of the alarmist/extremist faction of the democratic party but this looks, smells, and acts like a raw deal to me. I've yet to read someone explaining it to me otherwise. Big deal, Frist looks bad.He was never anything other than an extremist anyway and never had a shot at anything close to the presidency. So what did we gain?

[mvd]

12. I'll take any blink I can get

I'd be happier if it was without Bush approval. If Frist agreed, I'm not sure it was.

[bonzotex]

16. sorry, I don't agree this was a win

I'm a pretty smart guy and I don't see how this is a win. Feel free to explain it to us. How is caving in on these nutbag judicial nominees a win? We keep the filibuster but promise not to use it? WTF?

[Catherine Vincent]

19. We won, they won, we won, they won, we won, they won, we won, they won....

I AM SO CONFUSED!!
:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[Gothmog]

20. Without compromise, Scalia or Thomas would be Chief Justice

Without this compromise, I am sure that Bush would put up Thomas or Scalia as chief justice when Rehnquist retires. We have preserve the right to filibuster on a supreme court nomination in just this type of circumstance. Bush is not free now to put an extreme right winger onto the Supreme Court.

[JNelson6563]

23. They got ALL their judges! Yay us!

:puke:

So what now cheerleaders? We fight wars for peace?

How sickening this is.

Julie