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[bryant]

Hopefully nobody actually listens to me about politics.

I kinda think McCain's busy running for President. Frist was too, but now he's out of it; he needed that religious right support and he failed them. The field's fairly wide open now.

The hard right hates it. Tacitus, as is often the case, is fairly sensible.

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[bryant]

Reid's last count showed them either 1 or 2 votes short of beating the nuclear option.

Question is, of course, would it have been better to let that happen? You have to assume that Rehnquist retires about fifteen seconds after the filibuster is removed. If you don't beat the nuclear option, you lose Roe v. Wade. Huge stakes. (And that's why the religious right is so pissed off.)

I think I'm OK with a moderate center winning this one. Doesn't mean I like the moderate center, but I can live with the result and it blunts the power of Dobson et al for the next few years.

The next two big questions: who gets nominated for Chief Justice and who's the fundie candidate in 2008. This could blow up again pretty easily if the moderates can't agree on what constitutes extraordinary circumstances.