Thomas Sowell Analyzes The Senate Compromise

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11 thoughts on “Thomas Sowell Analyzes The Senate Compromise”

  1. Again, Sowell rocks. McCain’s mutiny is, of course, simply only his latest betrayal of principle. His constant waffling on abortion signaled his predilection for pragmatism some time ago. Of course, a man who has burned as many bridges as has McCain, and who has no reasonable future in front of him, is still dangerous.

  2. McCain needs the base in order to get the nomination. It seems he doesn’t understand he just gave them the finger. McCain just committed political suicide.

  3. You know how in “professional” wrestling sometimes the bad guy offers to shake hands with the good guy, only he has his other hand behind his back, and the good guy acts like he’s unsure whether or not to shake hands, and the whole crowd is screaming “No! No! Don’t do it! It’s a trick!” and then after a few minutes of this he finally decides to shake the bad guy’s hand, and then the bad guy clobbers him with the other hand?
    This situation feels exactly like that.

  4. McCain needs the base in order to get the nomination. It seems he doesn’t understand he just gave them the finger. McCain just committed political suicide.
    Unless a) he switches parties and cons the Democratic nomination out of Hillary’s hands or b) there is no one else with any perceptable chance of winning running for the GOP nomination and he manages to really play up Hillaryphobia with the base while getting full support from Ford/Ahnuld/Giuliani Republicans. Option “b” was a lot more plausible last week.

  5. Yeah, the “compromise” was like a punch in the gut. The Dems will not shrink from using the filibuster anyway, as soon as there is another nomination they don’t like. We lost at least two good judges and got nothing. I hope we go nuclear anyway, with the first Supreme Court nominee.

  6. Senator McCain once compared himself to Luke Skywalker.
    In the past few years, I’ve become convinced that Anakin Skywalker is the more accurate comparison–the valiant war hero seduced to the cause of Evil by flattery and empty promises. The role of Chancellor Palpatine is being played by the mainstream press and Washington Establishment.

  7. I hope we go nuclear anyway, with the first Supreme Court nominee.
    They’d better go nuclear (assuming a renewed threat isn’t enough to prevent the dems from filibustering to their hearts’ content). If the Supreme Court actually gets worse under Bush with a 55-45 GOP majority, 2006 and 2008 are going to be very bloody indeed for the Republican party (especially if Hillary is not the nominee, since Hillaryphobia would at least somewhat counteract the base’s extreme discontent should the Republican Senate prove completely traitorous on judges).

  10. Yeah, the “compromise” was like a punch in the gut. The Dems will not shrink from using the filibuster anyway, as soon as there is another nomination they don’t like.
    I find it interesting that the GOP would move to abolish the filibuster after it had used it so extensively during the Clinton administration (48 filibusters in his first two years in office). Of course the Dems should employ the filibuster against Bush nominees. Then the GOP can either back down or it can raise the stakes. Hopefully the latter. Then while the Democrats and the GOP are arguing over nominations and Senate procedural rules, the rest of us can live in peace and stop worrying about Episode III of the PATRIOT Act. That is, while the Senate is fighting over filibusters and whatnot, it will have less time to debate which of our liberties to take away next.
    I normally like Thomas Sowell’s commentary, but this article really isn’t very strong at all.
    “I don’t know Senator Frist but I know someone in Tennessee who does know him and thinks highly of him.”
    Is that supposed to be an argument?

  11. LJD, you are aware that judicial nominations had never been filibustered before the last few years, right? As opposed to legislative acts?

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