[wdkeller]

If DeWeenie is lying, why don't Bush and Frist jump up and say so? I sent emails to both urging them to confirm or deny the allegations.

[Jeff Head]

Frist was on Hannity yesterday and stated emphatically and directly that he had no part in the deal and was very dissatified with it. I believe he will do his best to get all the Judges to the floor of the Senate for an up or down vote. I believe if the Demos filibuster (and they already have done so on Bolton) then he will push to change the rules.

[Kenny Bunkport]

If DeWeenie is lying, why don't Bush and Frist jump up and say so?

Maybe because he's not?

Me thinks that Rush is so wedded to his own analysis that this is a colossal defeat, that he's unable to accept the possibility that, lacking a 50th vote for the nuclear option, Frist and Bush moved to get the best deal possible through negotiation. Why is that so difficult to accept?

[TomasUSMC]

Bush needs to get wackin these 7 upside the head. Hello Mr. President hello hello..... oh wait, he is busy fixing the border problem. ok.


No, really. When your party has 55 senators AND the Vice President, and the other has 45, you should have no problem getting 51 votes.

[NonValueAdded]

Spill DeWine!!!

[sirthomasthemore]

A posted this days ago, so its not revision-

"With Frists’speech tonight, where he acknowledged the viability of "extraordinary circumstances", he tipped his hand. We now know the real culprit was the Senate as a whole. It basically appointed a committee of 14. While the rest of the Senators entertained and kept their bases preoccupied on CSPAN, the committee was at work finding a negotiated settlement.

Have you heard ONE GOP senator, call for retribution against the Rino’s. Have you heard GWB scream out in righteous indignation. No, and we never will."

Until one sees the natural retribution that should naturally follow this manifestation of disloyalty to the president and majority leader of a political party, then for myself, I believe Garrett's report wholeheartedly.

Don't usually disagree with Rush- but this time he's wrong.

[jackbill]

Mark Shields, on the News Hours this evening, said that a lobbyist had told him that he couldn't get through to Lindsey Graham's office. All lines were overloaded. Jim Lehrer asked him if the calls were pro or con. (Lehrer is a real ass).

Shields said "con", and that Susan Collins' phones were also overloaded.

Shields then quoted McCain, who said that when things like this happen, phones get overloaded for a couple of days and then everything settles back.

We've got to make sure that McCain is wrong. Dead wrong.

[Soul Seeker]

I don't know. Why didn't the W.H. deny that a koran was flushed down a toilet to newsWeek.

I cannot believe the same argument newsWeek was blasted for making is being used by OUR side against the W.H. and Frist. It is not THEIR duty to deny every single spin thrown out there by an anonymous source no less.

Further, for those that want them to blast the RINO's? And if they don't take that as evidence of guilt? Two words. New Tone.

[feedback doctor]

If DeWeenie is lying, why don't Bush and Frist jump up and say so? I sent emails to both urging them to confirm or deny the allegations.

You know why? Because Bush and Frist have class. They also are smart. And I think that deceit exposes itself better than anyone else can

[DuncanWaring]

Frist has been shafted twice in one week, and you can't blame this all on Frist.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

[niteowl77]

I heard Bill Cunningham on Sean Hannity's show today, and neither one of them seemed to make any bones about DeWine's perfidy- so much so that I was actually taken aback.

[kcar]

There's a defintie rat infestation problem in the Republican basement that can't be papered over any more. I'm kinda surprised that Lindsey went limp-wristed (though with such a name...), but McCain's treason needs to be addressed, and the Northeast RINOs are worthless. DeWine and Graham and McCain should be targeted for replacement.

[Texas Deb]

I notice Rush says the story SEEMS to be false.

I don't think anyone knows anything for sure.

[Born Conservative]

[.30Carbine]

"How did this come about? Just hours before the Gang of 14 hatched their compromise, Bill Frist had the votes for the nuclear option. Frist was going to lose five senators, and that would have meant a 50-50 tie broken by the president of the Senate, Vice President Dick Cheney, in favor of the Republicans."
~ Charles Krauthammer The flinch heard 'round the world
Also posted here on FR.

Here's my only remaining question:
Why would Dick Cheney not want to be the deciding vote?

[blam]

Looks like De Wine has been caught lying in public...I saw him say that this was ok'd by Bush.