Mitch just congratulated Frist ! Ha ! They're pissed ! n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

[ncrainbowgrrl]

1. Also congratulated Reid.

Interesting....

[snowbear]

2. Pissy Frissy has a Hissy....

..on tv a few minutes ago.. What a bumbling idiot he was! :o :rofl: :spray:

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. Yes. That just made my night. He gives me the creeps - all pasty

white with that weird-ass haircut.

[LittleClarkie]

15. His face always looks weird to me

Like a flat Raggedy Ann face, no soul in the eyes.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. If owen is in fistfuck wins. After all, that's what was on the table

before they started in with this other shit. Everything else is a distraction, if owen is in then they won it all.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Shortsighted nonsense

The court Owen is going to is already packed with Republicans and would have been a loss anyway.

The goal was the end of the filibuster so that ANY nominee could get through for the next eighteen months. That was always the goal. Owens was just the sideshow freak meant to have people miss the forest for the trees. Hey Casual-Observer: See that forest now?

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Good luck!

[snowbear]

8. Ok alcibiades.....

I'm afraifd you're making way too much sense.. :o You've gotta stop that.

:spray:

...kidding!!!!

Actually, you made some great points there! :)

[Blaze Diem]

6. Agree..Frist pushing it to the EXTREME

by threatening "death to the filibuster", was a maneuver to force this very outcome. Its simply playing hardball. george still gets his wish. and the Nation is no better off.

Too much power in the hands of too few. This is the result.
What have the Dems really gained. Wasn't the point of hte filibuster to keep judges like Owens out of the Court in the first place.
They just rearranged the furniture.
This is pathetic.

Perhaps I'm not seeing this for what it is, maybe I am..

Maybe I wanted to see the Dem backbone stand straight against the blow of Fristian repugs, maybe don't like the bend I see in it now.
Hope there is some good n al this..when the smoke clears.

Question..Exactly why would Frist be so pissed if Owens et al still gets in?

[nickgutierrez]

9. Not quite.

Owens was an issue - the bigger issue was in preventing them from pushing (insert number here) other Owenses through the Senate in the timeframe between now and the 2006 elections.

[Blaze Diem]

13. I see you point..so the fight continues, just under a different appointee.

Well I am counting on the Dems who assisted in this truce to have used some forsight in doing so.
I don't doubt that Senator Kent Conrad sees it, but maybe my doubt comes from Lieberman's presence.

So Fristulation was a bit miffed???

What did he say about this?

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. No way possible

Push to this extreme for two or three judges. Risk moderate Republican seats all over the place? Nope. The main goal was the end of the filibuster, and that was a major failure.

[LittleClarkie]

17. I repeat, that is entirely to nuanced for their supporters

They thought it was really going to happen. They were salivating at the thought. The Justice Sunday people didn't set up shop for THIS outcome. They may have won a battle, but I'm thinking they may have just lost the craziest chunk of their coalition. Between this in Schiavo, the Religious Right may be realizing that these people are playing them for politics. They wanted total victory. They didn't get it.

[kevinmc]

19. Frist just lost.....

his Freeper/Fundie base. Reid won nothing, that's the way I see it.

[leyton]

21. We have saved the filibuster and embarrased the GOP Senate Leader.

Sometimes the fight is status quo vs. radical change. Tonight we stood for the former, and won. Perhaps we'd like change of our own, but when you're in the minority sometimes you have to just hold the fort.

[Zen Democrat]

10. The 5th Circuit is totally right-wing already. Owens won't make it worse.

And a moderate wouldn't make it better. The 5th Circuit is Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. We need to worry about courts that need protecting -- not lost causes.

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. Oh mommy, I just know there is a bicycle in this pile of horseshit!

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[slor]

16. Just make sure you point out to...

all you know, that owens issued a judgment AGAINST a woman that was raped by a vacuum salesman, from a company that did NO background check. Let people know, this is the type of person the chimp wants to rule in the courts.

[TheGunslinger]

12. Hey, Sonofabitch McConnell??? I thought you "had the votes"??

:rofl:


Fucking LIAR!