Associated Press has the details:
Top Senate leaders declared an unsuccessful end Monday to their compromise talks over President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, despite fresh talk of a deal to clear five appeals court appointees while scuttling three others.Of course there was no compromise, despite Reid's offers. Bill Frist can't compromise. The right wing nuts won't let him....and they control the GOP caucus, not Bill Frist. From AP:
"I've tried to compromise and they want all or nothing, and I can't do that," Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada told reporters after a private meeting with Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
"We both agreed that after several months of discussions, we have been unable to come to a negotiated position where the president's nominees get an up-or-down vote," Frist said.
Frist has said all along he will not accept any plan unless it gives each of Bush's nominees a yes-or-no vote.The translation of that is really that the little puppet Doctor wants to be President and the Right wing theocrats who are pulling the strings say: "no compromise."
For some insight into the Theocrat's agenda -- which their little puppet Doctor is trying to enact -- please see the post below.
