Coming off their victory in the judicial nominee compromise, the Democrats are poised for another victory tomorrow.  Janice Rogers Brown, who wants to recreate the Lochner era, equates the New Deal with the Russian Revolution, and thinks Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are too soft on the "culture war," will be voted on at 5:00 tomorrow afternoon.  There is no indication that her elevation to the most important circuit court, the D.C. Circuit, will be stopped.

So, the majority of the people on this site who voted that the deal was a victory for the Dems will turn out to be right.  The same with the main page diarists who waxed poetic about what a great victory the deal was.  And as a result of their courageous stance, we can all raise a toast to the likes of Ben Nelson, Lieberman, Pryor, etc.  Without them the confirmation of probably the most right-wing judge in memory to a federal appellate court would not have been possible.  Here's to you.