Senator Reid may very well be a genius

Found this little tidbit in the news today. I'm becoming more and more fascinated by how well Harry Reid is doing as Senate Minority Leader. He's played this whole battle over the "nuclear option" (Bush refers to it as the "nucular option") of eliminating Senate judicial filibusters perfectly. After whipping up the "faithful" (I use that term loosely) during Justice Sunday, Frist couldn't back down, and now Reid (and the Democrats) are the ones who come out looking like statesmen, true compromisers in the best sense of the word, and Frist is the one who looks like a small child who takes his toys and goes home if he can't get his way.

Reid gave Frist an out; he said that if he skips the few most radical, most extreme nominations, the others would go through without a hitch. But that wasn't good enough for Frist. It's scorched earth politics, where almost all just isn't good enough. It wasn't good enough that 95% of Bush's judicial nominees have sailed through the Senate. They need the full 100%, even if we're talking about people who side with cross-burners, or let our children die and deny their parents financial relief in order to side with big business.