Pyrrhic Victory #1
Well, I guess the new Democrat/RINO majority in the Senate decided not to run up the score too badly.
That italicized passage is why I can't get excited about this ostensibly positive result. That and the fact that I'm not convinced the Gang of Seven won't still screw over Janice Rogers Brown and William Pryor.
Do I really have to spell out why? Justice Owens' nomination didn't need this "agreement" to enable her confirmation. Minority Leader in all but name Bill Frist had the votes to break the Dem filibuster but was too squeamish to pull the trigger, and the RINOs finally seized this golden opportunity to strike. So now the new majority coalition deigns to give us a crumb or three from our own table, and we're suppose to rejoice?
Think of it this way: "terrorists" take ten hostages. They execute three of them in cold blood and refuse to release the remaining seven. Over the course of the standoff SWAT teams gradually and painstakingly surrounded the "terrorists'" hideout and get in position to storm the place and save the hostages. But, just as the order to attack is about to be given, one of the SWAT team members pulls out a bullhorn and announces that he's secretly negotiated a "compromise." He and six others walk openly into the hideout and gun down four of the remaining hostages themselves so that, he then declares, the other three can be rescued.
If you're a loved one of one of the three, I suppose you're relieved and grateful that s/he survived, but would you really consider that to be a satisfactory resolution of the standoff?
I think we're off base to call this "Deal" another Munich; "Waco II" seems a much better metaphor.
[HT: Captain's Quarters]
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Priscilla Owen as a federal appellate judge, ending the four-year ordeal of the Texas jurist who was thrust into the center of the partisan battle over President Bush's judicial nominations.
The 56-43 vote to appoint Owen to the New Orlean-based 5thU.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was a consequence of an agreement reached earlier this week that averted, for the time being, a bitter dispute over Democratic use of the filibuster to block Bush's judicial choices. [my emphasis]
That italicized passage is why I can't get excited about this ostensibly positive result. That and the fact that I'm not convinced the Gang of Seven won't still screw over Janice Rogers Brown and William Pryor.
Do I really have to spell out why? Justice Owens' nomination didn't need this "agreement" to enable her confirmation. Minority Leader in all but name Bill Frist had the votes to break the Dem filibuster but was too squeamish to pull the trigger, and the RINOs finally seized this golden opportunity to strike. So now the new majority coalition deigns to give us a crumb or three from our own table, and we're suppose to rejoice?
Think of it this way: "terrorists" take ten hostages. They execute three of them in cold blood and refuse to release the remaining seven. Over the course of the standoff SWAT teams gradually and painstakingly surrounded the "terrorists'" hideout and get in position to storm the place and save the hostages. But, just as the order to attack is about to be given, one of the SWAT team members pulls out a bullhorn and announces that he's secretly negotiated a "compromise." He and six others walk openly into the hideout and gun down four of the remaining hostages themselves so that, he then declares, the other three can be rescued.
If you're a loved one of one of the three, I suppose you're relieved and grateful that s/he survived, but would you really consider that to be a satisfactory resolution of the standoff?
I think we're off base to call this "Deal" another Munich; "Waco II" seems a much better metaphor.
[HT: Captain's Quarters]
posted by JASmius at 9:48 PM
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