Who is David Broder channeling?

What can I say? David Broder is so full of it. Why you ask?

A Judicious Compromise

Democrats Should Take the First Step to End the Filibuster Fracas

This is the sort of horse crap I would expect from the poisonous cyber pen of Robert Novak or Fred Barnes..

Let's start with this:

Here is what should happen: The Democratic Senate leadership should agree voluntarily to set aside the continued threat of filibustering the seven Bush appointees to the federal appeals courts who were blocked in the last Congress and whose names have been resubmitted. In return, they should get a renewed promise from the president that he will not bypass the Senate by offering any more recess appointments to the bench and a pledge from Republican Senate leaders to consider each such nominee individually, carefully and with a guarantee of extensive debate in coming months.

" This is so absurd I'm at a loss for words. "A renewed promise from the president"? Where has this guy been. This is a President and an administration that has never seen a truth they had to tell or a promise they had to keep. And this one; "a pledge from Republican Senate leaders", when the Senate majority leader has become a snake handler for the Radical Christian lunatic fringe.
And then there is this, also worthy of Bob Novak or Fred Barnes:

Voters placed Republicans in control of the White House and the Senate, and while the opposition still has a constitutional role to play, at the end of the day that function has to be more than talking important matters to death.

May I remind you David that the Democratic members of the Senate, although fewer in number, actually represent more Americans.
Then there is this little piece of wisdom you would expect to hear from one of the mindless talking heads on FOX news:

"The balance of power in the Senate is not in a right-wing cabal; it is in the moderate center".

Once again I can only assume that Mr. Broder has been transported to some alternate reality. He rambles on about the danger of "road blocks" and such but I just can't bear to go on. The only question is who is David Broder channeling, Bob Novak or Fred Barnes?