Ah, yes, the center. I think the centrists are growing larger. There are Coyote Democrats and South Park Republicans, those who don't fit into the far right or the far left. Those who don't want to go in endless circles in D.C., but would like to see some work get done.
I'm waiting to see what "extrordinary circumstances" will put the whacko left into filly-buster mode. The sun rising? Nominees with middle names?
Leave it to the Great Goomba to make a big deal of people with middle names. I protest. Just because Goomba has no middle name . . .
If we're just talking about "work getting done", then let's fire them all and send them home to do something.
That's more empty language. The key is ... let's do something that matters to America.
What has McCain done? McCain-Feingold? If that is what we mean by "work done", then by all means shut the place down immediately. The Demos threat to do so nearly made me cross the aisle and hug 'em.
McCain is odious and should be scorned.
Something a former dem put to paper was the thought that we may be gaining the first black female in the supreme court with this "compromise". Since Janice Rogers Brown has been considered "not extreme", just really far to the right, the dems may have sealed their fate on this one.
Something I fail to understand is how this could be bad for progress. Three of the nominees get an up or down vote, two of the nominees (on that will most likely not make it) get the opportunity to filibuster. The 'pubs know that one of them won't make it, but the last one gets them to the filibuster.
Sure, they won't vote on cloture for this one. Sure, the dems will try a filibuster. The real point is that the 'pubs can put up with one filibuster fight by staging a "lock-in" which forces the dems to bring many pillows and keep going until they're out of time. At this point it becomes a matter of wills. do the pubs have the testicular fortitude to press on through a filibuster-breaker?
Today, I kinda like the way that Frist and Co. turned the guns on the Demos, saying that "Well, now we know that people like Pryor, Owen, and Brown are not extraordinary."
But still ... I am skeptical of the testicular fortitude of DeWine (Mr. Peepers) and Graham (Paddle Boy) to hold the Demos' feet to the fire.
We shouldn't even be here, though. If the McCain-in-Chief and at least Peepers or Paddle Boy held the line, then we could get votes on these nominees.
If 50 senators vote for a nominee, then the nominee is not extreme. Period.
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