Push back - hard

Sometimes you don’t really know how bad you got whomped until you look at the game films. A day after the McCain/McCain wannabes agreement, it’s clear that McCain has tried to sell a farm for which he holds no deed. The seven McCainiacs who signed an agreement to sell the party down the river some how think they own the party - that's 7 of 55 Republican senators. Well if I were a real senate Republican, I’d get six other real Republicans and sign my own deal telling the McCainiacs to go to h-e-double hockey sticks.

If I were Bill Frist, I’d bring all of the judicial nominees to the floor for a vote lickity split. Then what are McCain and Harry Reid going to do? Frist’s name is not on the “deal”. As I noted yesterday, Frist should bring the two nominees named in the agreement to floor ASAP. The only way to solve this is to push McCain’s agreement so far down his throat it begins to show at the other end – which is a better description of what the “agreement” really is - excrement.

If Bush and Frist push the issue the real losers will be Harry Reid when he goes back on the agreement and John McCain when he looks like a dope for having been hood winked by Scrawny Harry. When McCain’s ego throws his hat into ring for ’08, Frist can beat him like a drum claiming McCain isn’t smart or tough enough to cut a decent deal with Harry Reid how can we trust him to deal with the North Koreans and the ChiComs? George Bush is fond of accepting bad news with the phrase, “It is what is.” Well I hope he takes that attitude to this fight. It is what is. Keep pushing forward. Accept the gains offered and push hard for more. I believe Harry Reid and John McCain have placed themselves between a rock and a hard place. They have very little wiggle room – but they won’t feel any pain unless someone begins to push hard on them.