MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ON JUDICIAL NOMINATIONSWe respect the diligent, conscientious efforts, to date, rendered to the Senate by Majority Leader Frist and Democratic Leader Reid. This memorandum confirms an understanding among … [Read more...]
Archives for May 23, 2005
Senate reaches deal to avoid nuclear option
A group of seven Democratic and seven Republican senators have reached an agreement that apparently will avoid the invocation of the nucular option that would have demolished the Senate rules and ended the use of the filibuster on judicial … [Read more...]
Some brilliant reporting in Washington state
Remember the gubernatorial election in Washington state - the unbelievably close one that Republican Dino Rossi won in the first count, won in the machine recount, but then lost in the hand re-recount to Democrat Christine Gregoire? … [Read more...]
What a WHINER!
Conservative guru Grover Norquist, originator of the charming "get [the federal government] down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub" quip, has gotten swept up in DeLayGate. Turns out Norquist was a little too … [Read more...]