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The Associated PRess reports: "In private talks with Majority Leader Bill Frist, the Senate’s top Democrat has indicated a willingness to allow confirmation of at least two of President Bush’s seven controversial appeals court nominees, but only as part of a broader compromise requiring Republicans to abandon threats to ban judicial filibusters, officials said Monday. ...."
If Frist even comes close to agreeing to this, it will be the biggest sell-out since the Indians sold Manhattan Island. This would be disastrous. Only two of seven? Even four of seven would be a sell-out of epic proportions. Frist should offer truly extended debate on all nominees, but only in return for a guarantee that they will all be allowed an up-or-down vote. ANY acceptance of continued filibusters on judges would be a surrender, pure and simple.