Accoridng to the
AP,
Bill Frist will not make any deal unless he gets
ALL of the judges. I suspected he couldn't make a deal, because the Christian Conservatives would never tolerate a compromise...
WASHINGTON - Reacting to a Democratic offer in the fight over filibusters, Republican leader Bill Frist said Tuesday he isn't interested in any deal that fails to ensure Senate confirmation for all of President Bush's judicial nominees...
...But Frist, in a rare news conference conducted on the Senate floor, said he would not accept any deal that keeps his Republican majority from confirming judicial nominees that have been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Are we going to step back from that principle? The answer to that is no," Frist said...
It looks like
Harry Reid's talk of compromise may have been good politics. The Republicans are now the ones who won't compromise & are being stubborn. Reid can argue he
TRIED to go halfway & Frist wouldn't.
The article also implies, contrary to Senator Mitch McConnell's claims, that the Republicans are short on the vote count...
...Republicans can essentially eliminate judicial filibusters by majority vote, and Democrats concede Frist may be only one or two votes shy of the necessary total. At the same time, internal GOP polling shows lagging public support for such a move, and no showdown is expected until next month at the earliest.