BODIES BLEEDING EVERYWHERE

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And the Future Vaporized as Survivors on Both Sides Declare Victory
I cringed during the Senate Post Mortem on this nuclear constitutional crybaby fiasco so you didn't have to.  The maimed who looked in the Senate  C Span cameras rather than into a mirror all spoke with a stunning mix of  the self: self congratulation, self loathing, and self deception.

Harry Reid handed it over (or allowed it.)  Not sure which of those is worse.  Frist frosted his future with the Always Right Religionists.  Hard to shed a tear.  Everyone cheered the Senate and this good agreement, then immediately progressed to saying the whole fiasco was the other side’s fault.  Except for Durbin who said his side had been admonished and properly so.

Losers lay everywhere bleeding out, yet thinking they will walk again.  Lazarus has left the building.  Meet him somewhere else.  I think he said Munich.

Democrats declare victory when Brown and Owen will rule where it matters: on the bench.

The reality is the Republican goal all along has been to get Brown and Owen through to be Circuit Court judges.  That goal has been accomplished.

If you step back and look at the Nuclear Option of eliminating the filibuster as a tactic  rather than as the goal all along, then the Republicans have won and gotten what they wanted.

On the Democratic side is only a truce with the chance to fight again.

The hard Right is unsatisfied.  Only a greater conflagration with the smell of bodies burning would satisfy them.  On the Left much navel gazing  leaves us with Janice Rogers Brown on the bench, with Priscilla Owens on the bench to rule for life or more likely for death or for property.  Harry Reid says he can finally sleep. Others will not sleep so easily.  Nuclear winter has been averted.  We live now After the Fall.

MAY 24, 2005

LOS ANGELES TIMES: CENTER FORMS TO OUTFLANK LEFT, RIGHT

But the compromise — a middle ground between Republicans who want to ban judicial filibusters and Democrats who want to retain them — includes two big loopholes that could come back to haunt the Senate: Democrats reserved the right to filibuster future judicial nominations in "extraordinary circumstances." Republicans kept the power to revisit the nuclear option if they believe Democrats are filibustering in circumstances that do not reach that standard.

WASHINGTON POST ANALYSIS: PACT UNLIKELY TO AVERT BATTLE

The deal brings mixed results for President Bush. It means that at least three of the nominees who have been blocked for years will make it to the appellate courts, while at least two will not. Beyond that, without a total ban on judicial filibusters, as the nuclear option would have guaranteed, the president will not have such a free hand in selecting a Supreme Court nominee. He also will be under pressure from the moderates to work more cooperatively with the Senate on judicial nominations or face rebellion from at least some of them.

TALK LEFT: SELL OUT PART TWO

All this compromise did was pass the buck to another day, while allowing three extremist judges to be elevated to lifetime appointments on federal appeals courts.

THE NEXT HURRAH: THE CENTER HOLDS, CHALLENGES FOR BUSH

THE DECEMBRIST: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE "TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE" NUKE DEAL

And yet, here we are tonight, and the deal is done. And I'll live with it. First, no one cares whether I think it's "totally unacceptable" or not. (That's apart from the more metaphysical question of who cares what I think about anything.) For that matter, who cares whether Barbara Boxer or even Harry Reid considers it "totally unacceptable"? It's the deal. It's how these 14 Senators have decided to cast their votes, and if the Dems had refused to agree to it, we'd be heading to a vote tomorrow in which Frist would probably win. Second, I think the language in the agreement about how every Senator will follow his or her "own discretion and judgment in determining whether [extraordinary] circumstances exist" in a vague way takes care of my concern.

MAY 23, 2005

NY TIMES EARLY MOP UP EDITION: MODEST VICTORY FOR BUSH

CROOKS AND LIARS VIDEO: FRIST STATEMENT

TALK LEFT: Sell-Out Deal Made: - Bush's Judges In

CROOKS AND LIARS: VICTORY for Democrats

THE NEXT HURRAH: It's Up to Us to Define Victory

SWING STATE: UPDATES

Comments

[The Blaghdad Cafe]

Blaghdaddy's opinion on this fiasco are assuredly clear, but he must repeat that the Democrats gave everything up and got nothing in return...for them to claim victory is like Rodney King saying he won the fight...

[Idyllopus]

I keep reading the exultation from Dems that this is great and now it's back to business as usual. But it's not business as usual and hasn't been. All this does is perpetuate the business as usual illusion--for those who buy it, for those who aren't paying attention, for those who don't have much of a memory, for those afraid to admit the magnitude of the crisis.

[kelley b.]

Good post. Visiting your blog makes an otherwise grim day a little lighter. It's reassuring to see people who pick up on what just happened.

They're all a-flush with victory at a lot of other sites.

When Bu$hCo cows the Democrats and the other bucks in their own party who might challenge their heir designate in 2008 with the same move, I can't see it's a win for us either.

[LJ/Aquaria]

How many nails does it take to close this coffin called a democratic republic, anyway?

The Dems caving on this just turned me Green. Congratulations, you spineless twits. This is what it took.

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I'm with you, Joe. I think the dems caved.

[Agitprop]

The Heretik is right on the money. Agitprop concurs. The Dems caved.

This agreement based in mutual trust among the fourteen centrists will most likely collapse when it comes to Supreme Court nominations. If yesterday was a silent neutron bomb, the Supreme Court fight will be the unleashing of the Doomsday Machine!

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