dave, TAKE YOUR POLITICAL BULL **** SOMEWHERE ELSE.


"Dave" wrote in message
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Since I'm a frequent critic of the Times's less than objective news
reporting, I think it only fair to give them two pats on the back
for
forthrightness in one of today's editorials.

Back when Clinton's administration was being stymied by the
Republican
minority, the Times was urging fervently that the filibuster should
be
abolished. Today they acknowledged that after spending 10 years in
the
minority wilderness, they have decided they were wrong.

Second, and equally commendably, the editors forthrightly
acknowledged that
"traditionally" the filibuster has not been used against judicial
nominees.
They didn't, as some have, try to construct a far-fetched argument
that the
Republicans had frequently resorted to some kind of
"filibuster-equivalent"
conduct.

A refreshing breath of candor on both scores.