I am somewhat afraid that the democrats will have no response if the republicans kill the filibuster. They say that they will shut down the senate but it just seems like one of those things that they would say "We all just need to move on and try to heal and come closer togeather." I hope i'm wrong.

My question is, how are the Rs going to act with this nuclear option? Not the far out rightwingers, but the so called 'moderates'. Will they find a backbone?

We are so fast to accuse the Dems when they do not get the results we want, but we seem to forget there are Rs in there who know this is wrong--will they act accordingly?

Can we give them some of the blame if they don't?

It's a compromise. CNN ; ""Under the agreement, three of President Bush's nominees for appellate courts stalled by Democratic filibusters will go forward and two others will remain subject to filibuster.

The group's members also agreed that they would oppose attempts to filibuster future judicial nominees except under "extraordinary circumstances."

What would constitute "extraordinary circumstances" was not defined.""

""Under the deal, the senators will allow three of Bush's controversial nominees to come to a vote: Owen, Janice Rogers Brown and William Pryor.""

Frist is not happy with this compromise. Sen. John McCain of Arizona shows once again just how -in-the-middle- he can sometimes be. Strange, American Politics !