26 April 2005
MSM Reports Possible Compromise on Judges
Frist to confirm RINO* Credentials, or MSM Exercising Wishful Thinking?
*Republican-In-Name-Only
There are a lot of reports like this one out there today - on proposals allegedly floating around that would have the GOP Senate giving up on some of the judge appointments in exchange for the Donks "allowing" a couple of the appointments to pass. Oh yes, by the way, the GOP would also agree to give up ever using the constitutional option to shut down the filibuster in any future cases when the real fight starts over nominees for Supreme Ct. of the US.
This would represent a double-barrelled betrayal of any pretense of the GOP being in any way representative of the conservative/libertarian electorate. Fortunately, with some digging, and in spite of the impressions left by the headline writers, Sen. Frist is denying this as an acceptable outcome:
But Frist said Tuesday that he's not interested in any deal that fails to ensure Senate confirmation for all of Bush's judicial nominees that have been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Are we going to step back from that principle? The answer to that is no," the Tennessee Republican said in a news conference conducted on the Senate floor.
Hopefully this is the controlling statement, and not the MSM's heralding of a grand compromise. This looks to the Chief like some previous times when the MSM extensively reports on something in the hope that their presentation will create some sort of momentum that will cause the desired event to happen.
The Chief will restrain himself from pinning the epithet of RINO on Frist, until this all shakes out a bit more - hopefully it will not become necessary.
*Republican-In-Name-Only
There are a lot of reports like this one out there today - on proposals allegedly floating around that would have the GOP Senate giving up on some of the judge appointments in exchange for the Donks "allowing" a couple of the appointments to pass. Oh yes, by the way, the GOP would also agree to give up ever using the constitutional option to shut down the filibuster in any future cases when the real fight starts over nominees for Supreme Ct. of the US.
This would represent a double-barrelled betrayal of any pretense of the GOP being in any way representative of the conservative/libertarian electorate. Fortunately, with some digging, and in spite of the impressions left by the headline writers, Sen. Frist is denying this as an acceptable outcome:
But Frist said Tuesday that he's not interested in any deal that fails to ensure Senate confirmation for all of Bush's judicial nominees that have been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Are we going to step back from that principle? The answer to that is no," the Tennessee Republican said in a news conference conducted on the Senate floor.
Hopefully this is the controlling statement, and not the MSM's heralding of a grand compromise. This looks to the Chief like some previous times when the MSM extensively reports on something in the hope that their presentation will create some sort of momentum that will cause the desired event to happen.
The Chief will restrain himself from pinning the epithet of RINO on Frist, until this all shakes out a bit more - hopefully it will not become necessary.
