LiberalOasis gets it exactly right:
pressure from corporate interests (who want the judges, but also want the Senate to function so they can get more friendly legislation) is still cutting against the efforts of the Dobsonites [the radical theocrats led by James Dobson].Fox’s Chris Wallace said yesterday, “I talked to a big business executive this week who was not happy [about the nuclear option]...he said, this is going to be bad for business if the Senate shuts down.”
Yup, Congress was on quite a roll, with class action "reform," bankruptcy "reform," repeal of the inheritance tax, tax breaks and drilling rights given to oil companies, etc. This resolution of the current filibuster struggle perfectly illustrates what today's Republicans (and most Democrats) are all about: lots of noise from the Christo-fascist fundamentalists, but ultimately the wealthy elite calls the shots. There was no way they were gonna risk a shut down of the expensive machinery that rubber-stamps their piracy.
However, this battle for control within the GOP is far from over. Once a seat opens on the Supreme Court, the theocrats will put everything they have (and then some) into getting their way, since the Supremes are the ones who ultimately rule on the issues that matter most to them (marriage, reproductive rights, church/state separation, etc). Should they succeed, there may be no going back.
These judges are by any measure (except perhaps whatever measure they use, if any, in Texas) incompetent and unethical jurists -- especially Karl Rove's hand-crafted monster Priscilla Owen, who thought nothing of taking money from Enron and Halliburton, not recusing herself from cases in which they were a party, and ruling in their favor.
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