Do not forget Judge Saad...Who?

All over the news shows last night and this morning, pundits, hosts, and the Senators themselves were trying to paint a rosey, positive picture to describe the filibuster agreement made yesterday afternoon. I listened as they spoke of a positive step toward bipartisanship. I listened as each side took a certain amount of credit. Some said the left were the winners, some said the right were the winners, some said the moderates were the winners, and still some said the judicial nominees themselves were the winners. I tend to side with the last, for was it not a vote that we were after all along? Take a deep breath and think about this. The three most "contraversial" judges that our President has nominated are going to get a vote on the floor of the Senate. Which is a plus. Second, Bill Frist the Republican leader in the Senate did not give in, did not sign the agreement and left open the option of changing the filibuster. Frist did not show weakness which is good. Lastly as I see it that the two sides of this moderate agreement put such a subjective passage, extraordinary circumstances, in the wording upon which it all rests, can be used in our favor. How? You may ask. If you remeber last week or so, their boy Sen. Reid, brought up on the Senate floor unnamed allegations found in a confidential FBI file on Mighigan state judge Henry Saad. What came of that was a breech in ethics allegation, which was brought forward late last week. When Henry Saad, and William Myers for that matter, are brought to the floor for a vote, that will be the true test. Neither of these men were mentioned in the agreement. According to the Prowler, at spectator.org, the fourteen Senators involved recognize that Myers should not be filibustered. As I stated above this whole agreement then rests on the nomination of Henry Saad. Minority leader Reid, has used smear tactics that border on criminal to attack judge Saad, a Bush nominee. If the Republicans back down and do not support Saad, then chalk up a victory for the left. But, if Bill Frist has a little Capt. Bart Mancuso, from the Hunt for Red October, in him, and when the democrats balk on the agreement in reference to judge Saad, he should remember the line:

Now if that bastard so much as twitches, I'm going to blow him straight to Mars.

Senator Frist should give absolutely no leeway on this agreement, and take extraordinary circumstances for just that. None of these nominees present anything close to what the public would consider extraordinary. If and when the democrats rescind their promise, the left will be shown as two-faced and petty, it has all the makings of an historical victory for the right. Senator Frist just needs to stand strong. Which applies conversely to what I wrote yesterday, but in this case it is the Republicans who need to learn that they are in the majority.