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Hewitt points out in the Weekly Standard the inconsistency of liberal outrage over congressional proposals to impeach judges, compared with liberal happiness that the Senate has actually begun using the filibuster to permanently block nominees. It's an interesting comparison.

Meantime, the Washington Post has a profile of nominee Terrence Boyle. The New York Times has a filibuster report, including this:

[T]he Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee plans to use e-mail to send hundreds of thousands of supporters an advertisement seeking to link Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader who is championing the rule change, with Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader, and his vocal criticism of the judiciary....A spokesman for Dr. Frist, Bob Stevenson, dismissed the effort to link the two leaders. "It sounds like a stretch," Mr. Stevenson said.

The Washington Times has a piece comparing Pres. Bush's confirmation rate with those of his predecessors, plus an article about how the GOP is pulling even with the Dems in the filibuster PR war, plus an article looking at the two parties' divergent views of filibuster history.

Emmett Tyrell has a column in Townhall titled, "Get Ready to Rumble," in which he writes this: "Students of American politics are about to witness a real battle royal in the Senate....My guess is that the Republicans are going to win."

Paul Escajadillo writes this (and more) in the Daily Aztec:

[W]hen a grievous abuse by the minority party continues unabated as it has, and disenfranchises the will of most of the voters who made Republicans the majority party, something has to be done. And while it is true Republicans will not be the majority party indefinitely, changing the rule will also prevent them from abusing their consent role in the event they become the minority.

And finally, for now, Marion Edwyn Harrison discusses legal issues involved in changing Senate procedures, and concludes his piece in the National Ledger by asking this question:

The political left may have achieved part of its purpose: Who, being an outstanding attorney, academic or judge, would permit his or her name to go forward with the prospect of a senseless sentence of endless delay and personal and professional vilification?

Good question.