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As Bush nominated Judge Roberts to be the next Chief Justice, the Washington Post says that Democrats from conservative states are supportive of Roberts because of Daschle's defeat:Sen. Kent Conrad, a Democrat from North Dakota, sounds like a swooning Republican...

Gang of Twelve Wreaks its Will on the Senate

Well, the RINO (Republican-in-name-only) Caucus in the Senate waffled again, as one might have expected, and threw two of the President's nominees to the wolves, with the prospect of more to follow. Demonstrably there are not enough Republicans left in the Senate, that remember that THEY are the majority party now, to manage to exercise the hard won electoral advantage that was handed to them by the voters.

When there is the sight of John "Manchurian Candidate" McCain lined up next to Robert KKK Byrd, the mind boggles, and the hope that the GOP can be an effective vehicle for conservative/libertarian change in D.C. It has been said that politics is the art of the possible. What is such a crying shame here is that IT WAS POSSIBLE TO HAVE A CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED VOTE ON ALL THESE NOMINATIONS. All it would have taken was enough backbone in the RINO caucus to back up the President as well as the Senate majority that would have voted to confirm these nominees. In short, as far as the Chief is concerned, these waffle-heads have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory as Sen. Warner (RINO-VA), stood there in the announcement presser holding up "the deal" papers, reminding one of Chamberlain after Munich returning to England promising "Peace in our time."

UPDATE:
After sleeping on it all and based on more thought on the status of the REST of the appointments NOT included in the deal, and the level of dissing to Sen. Frist AND the president, the Chief has revised his read on the relative advantage/disadvantage of this sell-out deal. The REAL GOP got seriously burned!

The following coverage was in The Hill on-line:

Deal heads off nuclear option
By Geoff Earle

A group of 14 Republicans and Democrats have reached a deal that will avert the use of the so-called "nuclear option" to end the judicial filibuster - at least for a time.

The deal would "pull this institution back from the precipice," according to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who helped broker the deal.

Yeah, right - but it just pushed Republican Party integrity over the edge.

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I haven't been anywhere near a computer today, so I hope everyone was keeping an eye on Instapundit's blogstorm and lining up a good relief effort or three to donate a little dough to. Or, you could have picked either...

From Joseph Farah (read the wole thing): The Founding Fathers knew that even the best designed government wouldn't work if the people were not righteous, moral and God-fearing ? if they didn't love liberty and cherish it. To practice self-government...

Earlier I posted on Tim Johnson? remark on the upcoming judicial nominations in which he referred to the mainstream. I received this email: Steve I see Tim Johnson is using the word mainstream again, what does he mean. Is there...

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