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Re: Sell-Out Deal Made: - Bush's Judges In (none / 0) (#15)
by ras on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:55:42 PM EST
GregZ, if these three judges were not "extraordinary circumstances" Im not sure what is.. I thnk the phrase is meant to encompass situations such as a judge found to be in the pocket of organized crime, or suspected of spying for a foreign power etc; i.e. truly extraordinary. A Senator merely disagreeing w/a Nominee is not really extraordinary circumstances, tho. That situation is to be expected regularly, since disagreements are the reason we have elected officials and votes in the first place - nothing extraordinary about disagreeing. Each Senator already has a vote that they can, and should, cast to express their opinion on such matters. As to how long this agreement will hold, I think it will last as long as it takes the Dems to filibuster again, at which point the R's will declare that to be in bad faith, the agreement will fall, and we start all over again. All claims to the contrary, though, I highly doubt that the D's had the votes today to prevent cloture, else they wouldn't have made this deal. And now, after having told the world that the current Nominees were raving extremists, they have to explain why they weren't willing to fight over it. Either they were laying it on thick before (that's my contention, fwiw) or they just can't be bothered to fight over issues of the utmost importance. And if the Dem rank and file themselves believe the current Nominees to be such a serious danger, then the birth of a third party just got one very big step closer. But remember, I said if.

Sell-Out Deal Made: - Bush's Judges In | 33 comments (33 topical)

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