Liberals Rethinking Senate Filibuster Deal

This is from The Washington (Com)Post, and therefore I am skeptical that the reporter is capturing the liberal mood accurately. But right now I can't think how liberals would benefit by grousing about the deal to move forward on three (or was it five?) of Bush's nominees if such grousing did not represent their real feelings on the matter.

Regular readers will recall that I was skeptical of that deal from the beginning--and when the Democrats filibustered John Bolton (and then tried to deny that this was what they were doing), I declared that the deal was now off, because the Democrats had reneged on it. (I will not use the phrase "they welshed," because that is a gratuitous and totally undeserved insult to the good people of Wales.) And from the distance that the seven Republican deal-makers were putting between themselves and that deal, after the Bolton fiasco, you would have thought that the Senate basically agreed with me.

But I cannot deny that the deal has brought results. Janice Rogers Brown achieved cloture, and today achieved confirmation. From the multiple snipes from one liberal source or another, you would think that she was the Wicked Witch of the West. Of course what she actually is, is a jurist, who happens to be black, who respects the ideals of individual freedom apart from, above, and often against the group-think "interests" of the black race as a whole. And if you were to ask her, I am ninety-five-percent confident that she would deny that a race of people could possibly have an interest deserving of any respect apart from, above, or against the interests of any individuals, whether they belong to the race in question or not.

In any case, you can judge a person's character with at least sixty percent confidence by the nature, character, and pronouncements of her enemies. By that measure, Janice Rogers Brown is a very good pick indeed. And the real point is that she will stand in direct line to advance to the United States Supreme Court--and that is exactly what the Democratic Party and their allies do not want. Now, of course, they've gotten it--and I suppose that I can readily explain their grousing over that deal, if this is the result it got.

So why is this deal still hodling, though the Democrats reneged on it over Bolton? Possibly they are monumentally embarrassed, or simply undisciplined. Either way, their prospects of continuing to run a crito-legislature (from the Greek krites a judge) are getting dimmer all the time.