SENATE FILIBUSTER COMPROMISE
ENDS JUST AS SOON AS IT BEGINS

From Think Progress courtesy of Eschaton:

But Congress Daily PM reports that Frist has other ideas for later in the week:

Senate Majority Leader Frist will file for cloture on President Bush’s nomination of William Myers to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later this week, according to sources on and off Capitol Hill, wasting no time in testing the resolve of 14 Republican and Democratic senators who forced at least a temporary halt to the battle over Democratic filibusters of President Bush’s judicial picks.

That didn’t take long.

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Okay, I have to admit that I don't really understand how this "compromise" is supposed to work--I'm consoled somewhat, however, by the fact that none of the talking heads on television today seem to understand it any better than I do. It's a pretty vague agreement. On the other hand, I feel pretty certain that part of the deal was that Democrats are suppsed to be allowed to continue the filibuster on the nomination of Meyers. Frist said that he was going to abide by the agreement, but then he pops off with this business. So what's going on here?

It's like I said yesterday: "compromise" means giving the Republicans whatever they want. Are the Democrats going to allow Frist to get away with this or are they going to force him to threaten the "nuclear option" once again? If the recent history is any indicator, the GOP is going to get what they want.

And people bitch at me for badmouthing the Democrats.

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