The WashPost today has an article that reinforces my position regarding the nominee games going on in the Senate and their potential impact on the 2006 Senate races. The democrats will continue to lose senate seats if they cannot attract the non-aligned, independent voters from the middle of the electorate in a manner that doesn’t […]

Those upset at the compromise Monday seem to have felt vindicated Thursday night when the democrats filibustered the Bolton nomination for no good reason (except to demonstrate to the moderate middle why they should not vote democrat if they want respect of differences and achieving results back in our government). Ed Morrissey sees this as […]

[Hat Tip to Newsmax on this one] 69% want the democrats to stop filibustering and give nominees up or down vote. The bombshell survey found that 35 percent “want to see the filibuster rules changed so that those judicial nominees are subject to an up-or-down vote,” Gallup said. Thirty-four percent “want to see the filibuster […]

I have to start a new post on this great project started by Mark Coffey at Decision ’08 (a new found gem of a blog I will be visiting regularly now). His “Coalition of the Chillin’” is growing rapidly. And many have come to similar conclusions as did the Strata-Sphere. See the Blog Roll of […]

No surprise here, except maybe the vote total. The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Priscilla Owen as a federal appellate judge, ending the four-year ordeal of the Texas jurist who was thrust into the center of the partisan battle over President Bush’s judicial nominations. The 56-43 vote to appoint Owen to the New Orlean-based 5th U.S. […]

I have been amazed at how many people have latched onto extreme, incomplete scenarios to decry the recent Senate deal on the filibuster. These extreme scenarios are all one sided: the reps are the losers and the dems the winners. What is stunning is both the left and right are sharing these same visions. But […]

The left is raging, the right is depressed, and the rest of us get to sit back and wonder. Why is the right so bummed out when they get three confirmations and nothing regarding the rest of the nominees? The predictions about Myers and Saad being dead are simply silly. All that came out was […]

I caught the so called agreement to avoid the filibuster showdown, and what a show it was. The ‘moderates’ will allow Priscilla Owens, Janice Rogers Brown and David William Pryor to go to a floor vote. They make no decisions on two others (Saad and Myers). And they withold the right to use the filibuster […]

This will be a very interesting week and, if the GOP do their duty, the week will bring the nation back towards a representative democracy. Ed Morrissey has a great point today. If the Democrats want to protect minority rights in the judicial nomination process, if the want to establish their fantasy version of historical […]

Being the pinnacle of liberal MSM thinking, it is interesting to see the NYTimes desparately find some hope in the upcoming judicial nomination showdown with the Senate filibuster. And they reflect this today in an article about the drooping image of Congress. Americans ARE sick of the unnecessary waltzing around by the two parties. What […]