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Thursday, May 05, 2005

Let's Make a Deal

It is the title of a May 1st op-ed by David Brooks. In light of their editorial slant, I don't usually pay much attention to the NYT, but because I tilt against the prodigious gale of my party on this particular issue, I perked right up when I read this:

"Last week, the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid, made an offer to head off a nuclear exchange over judicial nominations. Reid offered to allow votes on a few of the judges stuck in limbo if the Republicans would withdraw a few of the others.

"But there was another part of the offer that hasn't been publicized. I've been reliably informed that Reid also vowed to prevent a filibuster on the next Supreme Court nominee. Reid said that if liberals tried to filibuster President Bush's pick, he'd come up with five or six Democratic votes to help Republicans close off debate. In other words, barring a scandal or some other exceptional circumstance, Reid would enable Bush's nominee to get a vote and probably be confirmed."


The rest of the piece goes on to speculate why Frist would turn down such a deal and why he should have taken it.

If Reid made such an offer, unless Frist was not convinced that he could deliver on it, he should have taken it.


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