NYT: Many Senate Repubs Already Eager to Challenge Filibuster Agreement

Many Republicans Are Already Eager to Challenge Agreement on Filibusters
By CARL HULSE
Published: May 25, 2005


WASHINGTON, May 24 - Angered by a bipartisan deal on judicial nominees, many Senate Republicans warned on Tuesday that they were already eager to challenge the agreement by pushing forward contested candidates, as the Senate cleared the way for the confirmation of the first Bush choice to benefit from the deal.

"This deal is really no deal until it plays out at length," said Senator Larry E. Craig, Republican of Idaho, who said he wanted a vote soon after Memorial Day on the nomination of William G. Myers III, a candidate whose fate was left uncertain in the deal....(S)enators on both sides of the aisle portrayed the new framework as fragile. Republicans in particular said the bipartisan deal, brokered by seven Democrats and seven Republicans on the eve of a showdown that could have crippled the Senate, would survive only if Democrats refrained from filibustering other emerging nominees, including some who were not guaranteed a vote in the last-minute agreement.

Other Republicans threatened to immediately invoke what some have called the nuclear option - doing away with the filibuster against judicial candidates - if Democrats tried to block any nominee except in the most extreme cases....

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Some leading Republicans also expressed concern about an understanding among the majority of Democrats who signed the agreement that they would agree to block two other nominees backed by Mr. Bush: Brett M. Kavanaugh and William J. Haynes.

Mr. Kavanaugh is staff secretary to Mr. Bush, and the White House was alarmed that his confirmation prospects were not enhanced by the agreement.....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/politics/25judges.html

A lot of Democrats are making fools of themselves, regarding this "victory."

... didn't let the water out? Gee. Go figure. :eyes:

the "moderates" sold the American people out

this was a deal with the devil if I've ever seen one

they're allowing the three worst of the bunch to get up or down votes, and we all know what's going to happen with that

I'm disgusted with the Democrats on this

This deal only postponed the "nukular" showdown, and it is a blank check for bushie to do whatever he wants.

But who knows...time will tell, and I'm sure we'll know the answer really soon.

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.14744967

How true.

are thinking the same.

"At least we'll die with harness on our back!"