Gang of Fourteen.

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Shame on those who supported that deal!

[EST]

1. Slickest deal they ever pulled off!

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2. Where's the love?

Prominent DU'ers....speak up!

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3. Crickets.

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4. Remember, Republicans filibustered Fortas's nomination to Chief Justice.

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6. Memories.

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5. 40%(?) loved it.

Chime in.

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7. Agreement lovers. Sign in.

Fucking crickets.

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8. Now we have freaking Rogers Brown and Owen on the bench

FOR LIFE!!!!! Damn it!

Go ahead and use the freaking nuclear option. If that happens, there will be serious consequences that even Repuke Senators will realize and regret.

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9. I just want the folks who thought this was a good deal

to remind me why it was.

Bubkis.

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11. I always thought it was a horrible idea

for the reason mentioned above. Brown and Owens should have been filibustered as they were in the past.

[Shrek]

13. Here's a link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3713311&mesg_id=3713311

WilliamPitt (1000+ posts)

I'm glad they made this deal

and I am amazed at the hair-tearing I'm seeing here.

Look, folks, they got three appellate court nominees. We've already approved over 200 of Bush's nominees, and you're freaking out over three?

Folks, they just de-nutted Frist. His own people did it. Frist had stapled himself to killing the filibuster as a means of allying himself with the wacko right so he could run for president. His own people swung around behind him and cut his Achilles heels.

We would have lost a protracted war over the filibuster. All the majority would have had to do is push appropriations bills, defense funding bills, any number of bills that we would have stopped as a means of pushing this fight, and they would have buried us with the rhetoric.

We saved the filibuster, we saved our ability to do business in the Senate, and we saved our ability to block lunatics from making it onto the Supreme Court. In other words, folks, we saved Roe v. Wade today. The price paid was three appellate judges added to the 206 already approved.

We saved Roe, plus God only knows what else that would have come down if the filibuster had died. All of this bla bla about 'not filibustering unless extraordinary circumstances' is just that, a bunch of bla bla. We won, they lost, and Frist just got shived by his own people. We saved Roe.

This is a good thing.

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15. blink blink

[johnfunk]

17. Not if they're impeached and convicted

... and I could easily see the issue of decisions made by Jackass Rogers Brown being probed by a Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee.

[mikelewis]

10. As it turns out, the Gang of 14 may be quite useful

Don't be surprised if the McCain gang decide to help out our little movement here. They could be the key to stopping the Nuclear Option. We need 6 Republican Senators to refuse to vote FOR the Rule Change. In the Gang of 14 there are 7 Repubs as well as 7 Dems, they hold the key to the Nuclear Option, at least for right now. I believe there are other Republicans still on the fence and if we can't turn the 14 gang, we're going to have to start looking for a few who haven't bucked the Leadership in the past.

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12. The G14 was supposed to prevent nominations like Alito.

It lasted exactly one nomination.

[tritsofme]

14. I still say it was a good deal.

We gave up nothing, and got them to back off a couple nominees.

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16. Nothing?

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20. Roberts got nearly 80 votes.

How can you associate that in any way with the "Gang of 14"?

We didn't give up anything we wouldn't have lost anyways, and we kept a few loonies off the bench.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. NO KIDDING! Worst mistake the Dems could have made

besides voting for the IWR, the Medicare Bill, The Bankruptcy Bill, the Patriot Act...:( Sad. Sad and pathetic.

shame on them is right!

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19. Aren't you happy they're looking out for us?

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