Death of a Thousand Pricks

DEATH OF A THOUSAND PRICKS
Or Is It the Possible Prick of Fiftyone Republican Votes on the Nuclear Option?
Democrats are still talking of a “compromise” on the nuclear option when that compromise is nothing but a loser for everything the Dems have fought for so far.  Under the compromise, seven out of ten judges would be confirmed, including the Nineteenth century legal scholars Owen and Brown.  For this giveaway, the Democrats would get to filibuster in extreme circumstances.  Continue to feel the prick of conscience, Democrats!  The circumstances are extreme enough now.

Passed along from Bark Bark Woof Woof, Eleanor!  Clift reminds us of what more the Republicans seek: Stripping Senate Democrats of their right to filibuster judicial nominees is a prelude to a broader assault on the judiciary known as “court stripping.” Alabama Republican Richard Shelby last year introduced The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 to acknowledge God as the sovereign source of law and threaten judges with impeachment should they uphold separation of church and state.

MORE ON EXTREME CONSEQUENCES OF GIVING IN NOW. It’s about tipping the balance in the Circuit Courts, the places where cases that don’t make the Supreme Court end.  Talk Left points the way to that radical leftist rag The Wall Street Journal on the consequences: Janice Rogers Brown, for instance, has made scathing assessments about the reach of the federal government -- and she is nominated to the appellate court that handles the majority of appeals of government-agency rulings.

William Myers, who has advocated against environmental groups, is in line to join the appellate court that sorts through land-use battles.

William Pryor, who called a section of the Voting Rights Act "an expensive burden that has far outlived its usefulness" -- may be headed for an appellate court with jurisdiction over parts of the old Confederacy.

The Democrats need to continue to feel the tiny prick of conscience that got them this far in the game.  The last second of a tie game is not the time to allow the other team to score the winning shot.
 
 

MORE BACKGROUND AND COMMENTARY

If you go anywhere for insight, check out The Next Hurrah.  These guys ARE the Nightline of the Nuclear Option.  Here' s what Kagro X and his buds have brought to the table, a feast before the nuclear famine.

By Kagro X

Nuclear Option Proliferation
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part II
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part III
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part IV
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part V
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part VI
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part VII
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part VIII
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part IX
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part X
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part XI
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part XII
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part XIII
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part XIV
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part XV
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part XVI
Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part XVII

Footnotes on the Nuclear Option
Footnotes on the Nuclear Option -- Part II
Footnotes on the Nuclear Option -- Part III
Footnotes on the Nuclear Option -- Part IV
Footnotes on the Nuclear Option -- Part V
Footnotes on the Nuclear Option -- Part VI
Footnotes on the Nuclear Option -- Part VII
Footnotes on the Nuclear Option -- Part VIII
Footnotes on the Nuclear Option -- Part IX

 

By DHinMI

What’s In Filibusted Nominee Henry Saad’s FBI File?
Is Norquist Conceding Defeat on Social Security and the Nuclear Option?
When You Don’t Have the Vote, You Talk. When You Have the Vote, You Vote.
Bush Trots Out Zellout Democrat To Endorse Extremist Judicial Candidate
Filibusted Judge’s Wife Was a Swift Boats Contributor
Bush Nominee’s Father Led Last Filibuster of Supreme Court Nominee
Say Goodbye to “The Nuclear Option?”
Santorum Nukes Frist
Foxman, Frist and Byrd
The Filibuster and Southern Realignment
Bush and C. Boyden Gray Pass Up Opportunity to Defend DeLay 

By DemFromCT

Nuclear Hardball
Voting on the Nuclear Option: 3-D Chess
Head-Counting the Nuclear Option Vote
On Bolton, the Nuclear Option, and the Perception of Power--Part III
On Bolton, the Nuclear Option, and the Perception of Power--Part II
On Bolton, the Nuclear Option, and the Perception of Power--Part I

By emptywheel

Back to Specter: A Moderate Ultimatum?
Time to Review Arlen Specter’s Deal With the Devil

By RonK, Seattle

The Failsafe Option
Sub-Nuclear Options
The Knights Who’ll Say Nay

 

FRIST: REPUBLICANS FILE FOR CLOTURE

FRIST OPENING STATEMENT May 18,2005

REID OPENING STATEMENT May 18,2005

TOP TEN LIES ABOUT THE FILIBUSTER MEDIA MATTERS

CASE AGAINST PRISCILLA OWEN PFAW

CASE AGAINST JANICE ROGERS BROWN PFAW

GOING NUCLEAR CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS


THE DECEMBRIST
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Comments

[Screwy Hoolie]

Hairy Tick,

Thanks for all the links!

I agree with the notion that allowing Republicans to score a compromise (i.e. allowing 6 or 7 of the most radical rightist judges in American jurisprudence to wield power in lifetime appointments in exchange for nothing) is akin to laying down and letting the other team win. There is no compromise with the theocons. The only time they'll take anything but absolute vicotry is when Reid and the gang stand up and say no.

[DemFromCT]

Thanks for the links. Soon it'll be time for the show... Bob Brigham has his own survival guide at Swing State project.