Rush has remained consistent.
Some of the rest of us have remained consistent from before to now.
Anything less than an up and down vote on the floor of the Senate for these nominees is unacceptable. This is what we stated before, and this is what we state now.
I am not going to be giddy that three receive votes. Had the dwarfs not signed this Judas Pact these THREE would have all been confirmed! Good grief. Some are celebrating what we would have received if that damned pact never existed and these Senators had done their job and ended the unconstitutional filibuster.
We are NOT the minority. For a Minority this would have been a good deal. We are the Majority. Anything short of all Justices given a vote is not a victory.
Page me for celebration when that filibuster is NEVER again used to stop the appointment of qualified Justices. THEN I will celebrate. But I doubt that is the case. It is far more likely we're going to have to spend months building again to momentum to take down this filibuster that could have been ended a month ago. wasted time, wasted opportunity, and I am furious that extra effort must be expended to win a battle we already had won.
Well, Rush is right 97+% of the time, but this time he's not.
If the Dem's had gone through with their stated intentions if the nuke had been done a couple weeks ago, there would have had to be a "cloture" vote on everything from nominations for dog catcher to the most "important" legislative action - and every single "amendment" to every single action - followed by a nominal I believe 30 hours of "debate" as well as whatever "debate" preceded the cloture vote. Typically, these things get done by "unanimous consent" in the Senate and many things are simple voice vote, often on a whole group of issues or nominations at once.
I disagree that time has been lost by trying things this way. For certain, there would be two less conservative judges on the bench by now, and we'd be in the middle of the 30hrs on the other if all went well. If the Nuke had been done, that would have laid to rest for all time the question of whether a President would get an upordown on his nominees, but for this session of Congress, at least, the Dems could very well have ground business to a painful crawl, as they threatened.
Who would win the PR battle then? - I dunno...
This is worth trying.
I'm not celebrating these three judges as he's right they ought to have been on the bench long ago, but I am celebrating that the Demodogs have agreed not to filibuster judges for the next 1.5yrs --- We'll see.
I don't think the 'deal' will last forever, but at least three of the most constructionist judges in the nation are now on the Federal Bench.