WaPo / ABCNEWS Poll : Sixty Percent Side With Dems on Judicial Nominations

[jefferson_dem]

WASHPOST /ABCNEWS poll finds 60% of Americans side with Dems in saying Senate rules shouldn't be changed to make it easier to confirm Bush's judicial nominations.

Sludge reporting. No link yet.

[Renew Deal]

1. For 7 judges!

It's just a dumb thing to do.

[Atman]

3. It isn't a dumb thing to do at all...if you're them

Remember, these appointments are for life. The republicans may well realize it will cost them points, politically. But what will we be able to do afterwards? Re-instate the filibuster rule should we ever regain power? Sure, plausible. But you're smokin' too much weed if you think that would also come with a removal of the judges the rights appoint. They'll still be there to rubber stamp any crazy-ass legislation the republicans can funnel to them for review.

It's a kind of sacrifice fly.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. They are over reaching

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Where would it stop? You know they would change the rules

to suit them from then on. The last time they changed the rules, bush steam rolled a war right through within weeks of the change, the ink wasn't even dry and the bastard was marching into Iraq.

[ThumperDumper]

4. It should be 70% because

you can always count on 30% of the population to be the "brainwashed segment" who'll go along with the Republicans on ANYTHING.

All the looney poles always had 30% for Bush. (30% thought Bush won the first debate, remember?)

30% would have voted for Bush if he had killed and ate a child on National TV.

Were 10% "Undecided" or something?

[Still_Loves_John]

5. Well, to be fair

there are a few people who have genuine problems with the fillibuster in general--things that go beyond the short-sighted Republican thing going on. They probably don't make up ten percet of the population though, so I dunno.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

7. Fristian Bargain: a new term

Frist traded his soul to the devil in exchange for political power. To “strike a Fristian bargain” is to be willing to sacrifice anything to the Rapturist Right of the Republican Party to satisfy a limitless desire for power.

[grooch]

8. My only hope

is that if they axe the fillibuster and the media starts trumpeting all the conservative judges getting in, there will be enough of a backlash that the theocons will get their heads handed to them come 2006.

I just hope it's not too late by then to undo whatever damage is done to the judiciary.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

9. Wall street/business donations will dry up

Axe the filibuster, all other Senate business grinds to a halt, including all corporate legislation.

Frist needs to ask himself if it is really worth risking this for 10 measly radical judges?!?!?!