The Gang of 14 seems to be on board with Roberts

[theboss]

"The group of maverick Democrats and Republicans who reached a truce in partisan warfare over judicial nominations this year decided Thursday that President Bush's nomination of John G. Roberts Jr. to the Supreme Court was not "extraordinary" enough to break that peace."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-roberts22jul22,0,6802277.story?coll=la-home-headlines

If they agree, there pretty much ain't nothing that's going to stop this from going through.

[Dr Fate]

1. What is so "maverick" about rubber-stamping the Bush agenda?

Gotta love that "Liberal Media."

[tk2kewl]

2. maybe they meant mav-wreck?

:shrug:

[oasis]

3. Good. Now the press and the Dems can concentrate on Rove/treason and DSM.

[highnooner]

4. I believe the tactic of outing Roberts now

has backfired. There are bigger fish to fry.

[K-W]

6. If they wanted to distract attention they should have nominated

someone much less safe.

[theboss]

7. Explain to me again this logic

Rove will either be indicted or he won't be. What can we really do until then? Endlessly debate this for 4 months?

[Horse with no Name]

5. I had no doubts that this would happen when we backed down

Just like the bully that keeps drawing a line in the sand and then daring you to cross it.
When you do, they draw another one and then keep daring you, ad infinitum.
It was all for show. Hope you all enjoyed it.
These asshats never had any integrity to start with--why would anyone think they would have acquired some on the way?

[K-W]

9. Even without the deal Roberts wouldnt get a filibuster.

The Democrats, having little power, would need large scale popular support for a filibuster, that and an indication that the next nominee would be any better.

[rocktivity]

8. This could be a pre-emptive strike from a known Bush-friendly paper

:puffpiece:
rocknation

[theboss]

10. The LA Times is Bush friendly?

I've always felt it made the NY Times look like Newsmax.

[PATRICK]

11. What is so demeaning

about this is how the Bush people have blown off this swing vote RINO/DINO "power" bloc until they realized how defanged and pathetic they really were. Until they were needed for show purposes only.

If the Bush people had not been so scared and maniacal in pursuit of the extreme they would have made a lot of valuable use of these people to get everything they wanted smoothly, to the despair of all normal Democrats.

They are really considered mainly a plaything to back off from the blowback of the absolute contempt they have shown everyone not in the Bush inner circle. It must a source of comic relief in the WH to watch these weakest and most idiotic of loyal opposition leaders pose and strut as they wheedle and abet things now going down the toilet faster than Lieberman's presidential aspirations. Even the plain reasons for predestined electoral defeat cannot educate some people.

If the Bush people have tested the true mettle of all Americans they certainly have shone that some people earn contempt in bipartisan fashion
beyond the derision of Mt.Olympus itself. The "moderates" have failed in extreme fashion. They have proved they never were a good "third way" out of the world's mess. Roadkill in suits.