So is Kos from Dailykos.com a DINO sellout?

[Telly Savalas]

In order to save face, Republicans have gotten up or down votes on most of the handful of judges who are currently being filibustered. It's a price, but a relatively small one to pay to protect the filibuster during the next Supreme Court battle.

Given that we have a 10-seat deficit in the Senate, that's no small feat.


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/5/24/112930/966

[ohio_liberal]

1. Not even

I disagree often with Kos, but he's no DINO

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Of course! Tar and feather the son'bitch!

:sarcasm:

[ztn]

3. No he's not a DINO. He's true blue

he's also pragmatic and won't rant when it does no good. You can't blame him for being rational. He already voiced his displeasure with the deal. But we have to move on and be vigilent.

[GRLMGC]

4. I don't like him

but a DINO? Not even close

[NWHarkness]

5. What are our choices?

Are the only two things Democrats can be kamikazes or sell outs?

[Telly Savalas]

8. According to a lot of folks here, yeah...

either you're a kamikaze or a sellout.

I think Kos is right on the money with that post, but when 7 Democratic Senators follow his line of reasoning, they get called DINO sellouts.

[YEM]

6. He's realistic and trying to make sense.

As much as we would love a "coup," we need to do it the correct way.

[dbonds]

7. We won some and gave up some.

What we won was more important than allowing votes on 3 nominees. That is all we gave up. We reserved the right to keep extremist judges off the supreme court - that is a lot more important. It is not black or white. It is squarely in the grey zone. Some here think in absolutes, that if we didn't fight them tooth and nail to our death we caved. What happened was in the best interest of our party, fighting to our death is not. We lived to fight another day. We can not allow ourselves to deal in the same absolutes the freepers do. This was not just about these nominees, to think that is to miss the issue.

[leyton]

9. Selling out to reason.

I hate it when that happens!

[Karmakaze]

10. I was lurking for quite some time before I finally signed up...

and I was following this issue quite closely. It seems to me that BEFORE the compromise, the majority of DU'ers were of the "We must fight to the bitter end" types, while the one or two people I saw who said things like "Perhaps we should allow Owens et all, just to save the filibuster" were roundly criticised.

It's funny how times change.

[newyawker99]

11. Hi Karmakaze!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: