{"id":1654,"date":"2005-05-24T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/the_compromise\/"},"modified":"2005-05-24T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T13:35:30","slug":"the_compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/the_compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Marshall gets at the crux of why yesterday&#8217;s heralded compromise probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2005_05_22.php#005731\">isn&#8217;t a long-term solution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And the main issue isn&#8217;t resolved so much as it&#8217;s delayed. The moderate Republicans agree to preserve the filibuster so long as the Democrats use it in what the moderate Republicans deem a reasonable fashion. And yet the use of the filibuster, by its very nature, almost always seems unreasonable to those whom it is used against.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly.  From what I&#8217;ve seen, there&#8217;s no definition for &#8220;extraordinary circumstances.&#8221;  So what does it mean?  In practice, it apparently will mean whatever these 14 &#8220;moderate&#8221; senators say it means.  And there&#8217;s no guarantee the consensus shown yesterday will withstand the stiff winds of a Supreme Court confirmation fight.<br \/>\nMoreover, as Mr. Marshall notes, the agreement fails to include a White House commitment not to select far-right nominees which would be the basis for another filibuster fight.  My hunch is that this episode merely serves as a flashing red cape, emboldening the Dobson\/Frist\/Bush coalition to send an even more radical appointment when they have the chance.  You gotta maintain the tough guy appearance to keep the red meat crowd happy.  And that won&#8217;t happen through compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/the_compromise\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The Compromise\"><p>Josh Marshall gets at the crux of why yesterday&#8217;s heralded compromise probably isn&#8217;t a long-term solution: And the main issue isn&#8217;t resolved so much as it&#8217;s delayed. The moderate Republicans agree to preserve the filibuster so long as the Democrats use it in what the moderate Republicans deem a reasonable fashion. And yet the use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}