I respectfully disagree. This compromise moves the bar for what might be considered "extraordinary cases" to nominees which are somewhere to the right of David Duke.
Just read the compilation of trash talk comments Dems spouted about Owen and Brown. After all the vitriol directed at those two upstanding, highly competent ladies and they are going to allow them to have a vote? This is a concession that they are not "extraordinary cases".
This is a huge victory becauase two ladies whom conservatives would LOVE to have on the SCOTUS are now inoculated when and if they are nominated for it.
I respectfully disagree. This compromise moves the bar for what might be considered "extraordinary cases" to nominees which are somewhere to the right of David Duke.
Just read the compilation of trash talk comments Dems spouted about Owen and Brown. After all the vitriol directed at those two upstanding, highly competent ladies and they are going to allow them to have a vote? This is a concession that they are not "extraordinary cases".
This is a huge victory becauase two ladies whom conservatives would LOVE to have on the SCOTUS are now inoculated when and if they are nominated for it.
I was reading this post just as Rush made a comment on it/this very idea, with which I agree:
So you're saying that the Rats won't go so far as to be intellectually dishonest the next time a conservative nominee is up? Please.
I wish you were right, but I don't think so.
Compromising Senators must have the mistaken impression that once Brown and Owen go up to the Circs, the libdems will "love them" and wont oppose their promotions to the Supremes. That strategy worked magnificently with Bork, Thomas, Scalia didnt it?