[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

No nominee can win enough support to preclude filibuster threats when the values of the individual members are so polar opposite. It's an impossiblity. What Chaffee really wants is for Bush to nominate judges that agree with him and the Democrats -- the minority in the senate. He doesn't give a flip about the support of the majority. He wants the majority to concede.

[monkeywrench]

"What Chaffee really wants is for Bush to nominate judges that agree with him and the Democrats -- the minority in the senate. He doesn't give a flip about the support of the majority. He wants the majority to concede."

As important as this vote is, the leadership should have laid out consequences for going against their party.