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No One Could Have Predicted (A Continuing Series)
Balloon Juice — RIP, “Up or Down Vote”: In a letter released [Monday], all 41 Senate Republicans threatened to filibuster President Obama’s judicial nominees unless they were given veto power over judges from their states. The letter also demanded that President Obama renominate ultra-conservative Bush nominees like Peter Keisler, Glen Conrad and Paul Diamond. I’m shocked.

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If I Ran the Zoo — The end message of the event was very simple -- surprisingly so, given that other political events tend to try to have a little substance attached (policy prescriptions, etc.), while the only conservative policy goal that can stand up against the slightest breeze seems to be the goal to get themselves back in power. The takeaway message from the event is that any basic competence whatsoever in government is equivalent to socialism. Oh, and any level of taxation equals socialism, and any attempts to save America from economic ...

Remember the Nuclear Option?
Suburban Guerrilla — No, you don’t. It never happened! From People for the American Way: In a letter released [Monday], all 41 Senate Republicans threatened to filibuster President Obama’s judicial nominees unless they were given veto power over judges from their states. The letter also demanded that President Obama renominate ultra-conservative Bush nominees like Peter Keisler, Glen Conrad and Paul Diamond. [...] “The Senate has an important role in the confirmation process, and in extreme cases when the President has refused to ...

From the "That's a fact, Jack." file.
Upper Left — Hunter... ...there is absolutely nothing -- nothing -- that Republicans believe in as a matter of principle, and every belief changes exactly as much and as often as is needed in order to justify whatever they feel like doing at any particular moment.Yep.