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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Ty? What's the view on this through your rose-colored glasses?
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I am enough of a small-c conservative to be happy that the filibuster survives in some form. And I think that the big victory for Democrats is that some threat of a filibuster of a Bush Supreme Court nominee continues. This will temper that nomination, and should dissuade Bush from picking a total wingnut. Also, between Voinovich's position on the Bolton nomination, and the deal on the filibusters, you see moderate Republicans bucking the President and not (yet?) paying a price. The battle here is between the President and moderate Republicans, not between the GOP and Dems.
That said, I think that some of the judges who are going to take the bench are terrible, and I regret seeing them going up. Owen was just ranked as the worst judge on the Texas Supreme Court according to the bar association ratings in that notoriously liberal hotbed, Houston. By her own speeches, Brown wants to be the worst kind of judicial activist. But you can't win them all, and Bush has been happy to turn over the selection of judges to cultural conservatives.
