Nuke 'em: 51 Votes To Turn The Keys

So calculates Chris Matthews, based on his conversations with Senators, if you believe him, which I don't particularly, but there you go.

Matthews suggests that all these eleventh-hour compromises are primarily geared to providing the Democrats with a face-saving Peace With Honor that will avoid the acrimony and tumult of actually doing the dirty deed.

A bit of an effort at comity is good, but if we really do have the votes, Frist had better not sell out anything important in the interests of gaining the goodwill of liberals, which of course he never will actually gain.

Not One Dime If You Don't Turn The Keys Update: Captain's Quarters links to a campaign to call Republican senators and let them know, politely but firmly, that you will not be donating in this cycle unless they go through with the "Byrd Option."

I wouldn't quite hold them to executing the Byrd Option, necessarily, if they could secure a compromise that gave us 90% of what we wanted. We can be generous and give back 10%, just to get the liberal media off our backs.

Still-- let them know you're serious about this issue.

Thanks for that tip to the National Journal's still-unlinkable Blogometer.

posted by Ace at 12:49 PM

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