I'm glad they made this deal

[WilliamPitt]

and I am amazed at the hair-tearing I'm seeing here.

Look, folks, they got three appellate court nominees. We've already approved over 200 of Bush's nominees, and you're freaking out over three?

Folks, they just de-nutted Frist. His own people did it. Frist had stapled himself to killing the filibuster as a means of allying himself with the wacko right so he could run for president. His own people swung around behind him and cut his Achilles heels.

We would have lost a protracted war over the filibuster. All the majority would have had to do is push appropriations bills, defense funding bills, any number of bills that we would have stopped as a means of pushing this fight, and they would have buried us with the rhetoric.

We saved the filibuster, we saved our ability to do business in the Senate, and we saved our ability to block lunatics from making it onto the Supreme Court. In other words, folks, we saved Roe v. Wade today. The price paid was three appellate judges added to the 206 already approved.

We saved Roe, plus God only knows what else that would have come down if the filibuster had died. All of this bla bla about 'not filibustering unless extraordinary circumstances' is just that, a bunch of bla bla. We won, they lost, and Frist just got shived by his own people. We saved Roe.

This is a good thing. K?