National Review Online: Text of The Deal

Basically, all this deal says is that three--only three--of President Bush's long-delayed judicial nominees will get their votes. Nothing else is guaranteed at all.

For what it's worth, Patricia Own has already gotten cloture on her nomination. Perhaps Janice Rogers Brown and William Pryor can expect to get cloture as well. But--no one else.

Thanks a lot, John McCain, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, John Warner (The Best US Senator Whom Elizabeth Taylor Ever Married), Lincoln "Missing Link" Chafee, Lindsay Graham, and Mike DeWine. You sold the electoral birthright of the Republican Caucus in the Senate for a mess of thin pottage. I hope you're satisfied.