The filibuster “compromise” is looking sweeter and sweeter. Did the Democrats actually read what they were signing, or were they too busy mugging for the cameras? This is hilarious. The evil Karl Rove does it again!
Says Senator Bill Frist: “I’m pleased with the bipartisan progress that we are making. Let us continue on this path.”
Oh yes, let’s do that. 
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Compromise = A settlement of differences in which each side makes concessions.
What were the concessions that the Republicans made? Oh. Yeah. The interpretation of the filibuster not applying to judges was moved down the road (kicked the can down the road).
The Senate will get bottled up on this stuff again (probably when a nomination for the Supreme Court comes up) due to a few Republicans “concession” that the interpretation shouldn’t be made at that exact moment in time.
Seems an ok deal to me too. Time helps Conservatives. The big media are usually able to jump on an issue and misinform more people faster. The longer an issue is worked over the conservatives are able to get the facts out and convince more people. Conservative views and the TRUTH and FACTS reach 52% of the people now to some extent but it’s slower than the big onslaught that the big media are able to push rapidly.
This was the case in the Shaivo case. Most people actually thought Shaivo was in a coma. The more people knew the more people were for the family taking care of Terri and having Michael just divorce her and let her be taken care of by her family as they were trying to do for many years.
When it blew up into the mass media due to a judges order and then legislatures trying to get the can kicked down the road by having it reviewed quickly again. The media was able to gear up and characterize the action (which was bipartisan) as a religious zealotry/religious right issue and the “activist” legislature who did nothing but have the judge look at the case again.
Sorry to go off topic.
I haven’t seen any Thomas Griffith (the judge that was confirmed) character assassinations by the big media. Could it be that they weren’t geared up for the fight yet? The confirmations are happening faster than they can all assassinate someone’s character with uncanny coordination?
Excuse me Bak, can some of us post too?
JK.
Powerline notes that the Republicans are winning, but they are winning “insufficiently.” I’m somewhat on-board with that idea, that they should be administering a butt whoopin of the first degree. However, knowing how many different groups are always infighting within the GOP, getting these guys through so far is a pretty impressive measure.
Yeah. It’s so dynamic. There are the apolitical and non-political and apathetic that must be factored in. There are the centrist conservatives and then the more libertarian leaning conservatives who really want to see government cut and then there are the so-called moderate (but really left of center) conservatives.
The key thing to do is look at it from a big picture perspective. Talk Radio was a large factor towards changing the makeup of the leadership of this country. Democrats had a majority in the Senate and House and State governorships and legislature for over 54 years. There was a leadup to that fact changing of talk radio changing minds and getting facts out. 1994. was the turning year. Then the Internet came along. Dan Rather and Eason and Alan Colmes and whoever else simply cannot state whatever they want without being challenged anymore. I’m not saying that liberals state everything wrong and conservatives state everything right. What I’m saying is that there is a shift.
Unfortunately, the shift has changed leadership to an extent from Democrat to Republican but the country is STILL moving left. The federal government still makes many more regulations, taxes, and spends more every year. The government is more involved with our lives than ever. In the political spectrum I haven’t even seen in my lifetime a year’s worth of the government moving to the center or right. I say year’s worth because there will be a glimmer like the tax cuts but then there isn’t less spending as well. There is always more spending.
Conservatives I think generally make sense. And we have facts generally to support our argument. We’ve had to make them well thought out.
While liberals are well-meaning they don’t understand conservatives and think that we are mean-spirited. So, when we want to teach someone how to fish as opposed to just giving them fish we need to try to find ways to help more and more Americans understand what we are about. We need to explain our intentions I think. It’ll help us in the war of ideas (that we are starting to win).
Just as a side note, the justices that were “put on the chopping block” were the ones that probably wouldn’t be able to get the required votes in the first place. Gee, something really tough to give up.
So what did the R’s gain? Janice Rogers Brown, once someone retires or keels over, will have a free shot at the Supreme Court. The compromise entailed permitting those competent in their faculties regardless of their views.
Again, Bush slips in another conservative minority into a place of power…what a racist…
3 of Mr. Bushes best nominees made it. I call it a win (the battle, not the war.)
Let’s wait and see what the next Supreme Court vacancy brings.
Any takers on Clarence Thomas to take the top job?
You know, in 3 short years, when blacks look around and ask what have they done for me lately, the donks will only be able to point to Obama.
Oh the irony, excuse me while I go giggle myself silly
PS, and that Janice Brown will take CT’s place.
You know, if what Bush has done is vote-buying, then let’s have more of minorities in real power positions.
Are any apologies in order guys for the naughty things some of you said about the Dirty Dozen(plus 2) who made this compromise happen?
Come on now, you know who you are.
Nope, not even a hint of an apology from me. My opinion of the Cave-in Crew and their limp spines remains just as low as ever, despite some good individual results lately. We’ll have to see how the actual confirmations pan out over time. Right now, the Obstructo-Dems are still bottling up Bolton’s nomination. Not a good sign.
I’ll agree with Redbeard. The dems have shown that their opposition to JRB and the other judges was based on sticking a thumb in Bush’s eye, and little more. The real proof will come when someone is nominated to the Supreme Court, and what arguments are made by the opposition.
Besides, I’m still waiting for the dems in the senate to appologize for all the mud they threw at candidates like Brown.
Redbeard/SCSI, ditto.
“The dems have shown that their opposition to JRB and the other judges was based on sticking a thumb in Bush’s eye, and little more.”
No SCSI. It’s about ideology; right/left, conservative/liberal, believers/atheist…. infinitum. GWB and JRB are just current symbols of the opposing ideology. I’m sure they don’t take it personal.
In a healthy democracy, currently about 6% more to the right by the last election, you do have to compromise and play well with others in order to get things done. Each side keeps the others from getting too far off the reservations. A great system!
Want to make yourself politically impotent and a liability to your parties power(elect-ability)? Scare middle voters away from Republicans and into the arms of waiting and hungry Democrats with a hard nose, uncompromising, far right position, just like Ted, Nancy, Dean, Barbara, and Byrd on the left.
Jim,
If it was really idealogy and real concerns, then they wouldn’t have given up the ship.
For the rest, at least you know who and what is costing you elections
“Are any apologies in order guys for the naughty things some of you said about the Dirty Dozen(plus 2) who made this compromise happen?
Come on now, you know who you are.”
No apology here. They didn’t need the compromise to get the appointments through if they really wanted to.
Like I said above, I’m starting to subscribe to the theory that perhaps the GOP isn’t winning sufficiently, even though there is quite the dynamic working in the Republican Party.
All right, fine. May your grandchildren be chicano activists who demand separate ceremonies for their college graduation.
Hey Jim, your talking points almost sound like today’s Opinion Journal’s The Doughnut Democrats: Whatever happened to the party’s middle?
“Why is that? One reason is that the party of FDR and JFK no longer seems to have a moderate wing; they have become doughnut Democrats with no middle. This point is best exemplified by the utter collapse of Democrats in the South. In 1980 there were 20 mostly conservative Democrats in the Senate; now there are four, and even they are endangered.”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006827
Looks like the current DNC is already impotent. What they need to rescue them from themselves is a Scoop Jacksonite. Unfortunately, they’ve been sent packing to the ever-loving arms of the GOP. Pity.
Um…. huh?
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