No Compromise

I discussed David Broder's horrible commentary advocating compromise to avoid the "nuclear option"here yesterday. Josh Marshall was equally upset. This morning Joe Gandelman has an excellent post, Republicans May Have Votes To Nuke Filibuster, discussing the issue. Joe reports that Senator Joe Biden is once again having major problems with his spine.

Biden, appearing on ABC's "This Week," said, "I think we should compromise and say to them that we're willing to - of the seven judges - we'll let a number of them go through, the two most extreme not go through and put off this vote" to end the filibuster.

The Democrats can't expect enough Republican defections to defeat the "nuclear option" if people like Biden are going to listen to the nonsense of David Broder. Bill Frist and the rest of the theocratic radicals that have hi-jacked the Republican party don't compromise. To them a compromise is we win--you lose. If there are Democratic lawmakers who still can't see this they are unfit for office. While there are risks in forcing Frist's hand there are NO benefits for not doing it. In my professional life as an engineer I was involved in cost/benefit analysis. This is a no brainer--NO COMPROMISE!!!!.


Note
Go check out all of Joe Gandelman's excellent post on this.

Update
See No Compromise Part 2 above.