A Dozen Reasons to Smile About the Filibuster Deal:

[smartvoter]

Here is a sample of what the Freepers are saying at Free Republic. Enjoy!!!

1. Do not be fooled, the Republican Senate RAPED you tonight.

2. Graham.....better enjoy his fame.....he sold out his party.

3. Frist looked like he was close to having a stroke.

4. The first thing that should happen is to get rid of McCain...

5. Why don't moderates ever land on the side of conservatism?

6. In effect, the GOP is the minority party in the Senate. In effect, 7 GOP Senators switched parties tonight.

7. If you believe that GOP will ever fight Dem nominees the way the Rats have when they are in the minority, you are part of the problem.

8. Hope he was a better surgeon than he is a wuss senate leader.

9. McCain is such an arrogant jerk. I did not vote for him. But he won 70 per cent of the vote. He did not campaign at all.

10. Some day, I want to vote for a party that does not just want to win if they can get along with their opponents, but a party that will kick the crap out of their enemy every single damn day.

11. The cancer, if not cut out, will metastasize.

12. Does anyone know what the lefties are saying at DU?

[NMDemDist2]

1. ROFL thanks! n/t

[smartvoter]

2. As a fellow Arizonan, you'd get a kick out of the anti-McCain

threads out there. Someone suggested that Hayworth is could take him out in a race.

I don't know about you, but I'd but my retirement against that outcome...

[NMDemDist2]

3. yeah, McCain is in the Senate until he retires or gets the GOP nod for

Prez.... but we HAVE to get Kyl out!! Hopefully Jim Pederson can run a decent campaign and get elected in '06

[smartvoter]

4. I H A T E Kyl and am in complete agreement. nt

[forgethell]

17. McCain just

blew his last chance as Republican nominee for President. If he ever does run as a major paarty nominee, it will have to be as a Democrat. What do you think his chances would be?

[smartvoter]

19. He's toast in that party unless there is an uprising of some sort wherein

there was a backlash against the institutional/ultra-right system. But he could do well as an independent. (Hard to imagine him running as a Dem after supporting W. And he's not liberal. He's just not a neocon.)

[pacalo]

5. This one is very telling...

Some day, I want to vote for a party that does not just want to win if they can get along with their opponents, but a party that will kick the crap out of their enemy every single damn day.

That's the same mentality that gets a rush out of an illegal war -- as long as it's other men & women losing their lives to fulfill the wingnuts' need to feel "tough".

Pathetic.

[smartvoter]

7. You're exactly right. nt

[ComerPerro]

8. Speaks volumes, doesn't it?

[merwin]

6. That made me smile :-)

[Jack Rabbit]

9. They sound just like we do sometimes

Well, DU and FR each has more than its ideological purists.

They're going to get three conservative right wing judges. What are they upset about?

[smartvoter]

10. They didn't get 100% of what they want. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Yep

I've been complaining tonght and maybe I should stop.

A year or two ago, with Daschle leading the charge, the Democrats would have been bowled over.

[smartvoter]

12. I think you're right about that. There's been spinal growth on our side

lately.

The bottom line, at least in my opinion, is something like this is as close as we get to having "our way."

[Jack Rabbit]

14. I'm a progessive; Daschle and Reid are moderates

But at least Reid is an effective moderate.

[smartvoter]

16. He has been a huge surprise to me. Thought he'd be a push over. nt

[splat@14]

13. OK, I like the fact that they are pissed and the reasons you post.

However, I still liked the nuclear option better as I believe it would have cost them more while our expense (2 pathetic justices) would likely be the same. That said, it's history now.

Hope they put Frist up in 2008. He's vulnerable from both sides after this. They can self destruct over him and we can help where needed. I'm sure it won't be that simple.....they just piss me off, dammit!
Splat

[smartvoter]

18. I know, but I'd bet you a dollar to a doughnut they would have floated

some critical bill and painted our side as unwilling to take care of the troops or some other B.S.

The Republicans that broke ranks did so to prevent exposure. So did ours.

At least, that's what I suspect drove the deal.

[cry baby]

15. *smiling*

:P

[smartvoter]

20. More should be. Expectations were too high. We're in the minority with

a radical force in power.