A well duh...moment for the Democrats...

As I read an article in today's Washington Post about some Liberals thinking the compromise wasn't such a good deal for them given it looks like Rogers-Brown is going to get the nodd, I said "well duh". I mean really to agree to allow her yet to have problems with Myers who is so much a better nominee than Rogers-Brown was silly.

I thought to myself when it happened, okay....there are some Republicans that even realize Rogers-Brown is not a good candidate so while I believed Owen would pass (and should have) I thought the fact the 7 Republicans stood up meant something.

Let's look however at what has happened to the 7 since they made the compromise....They are being attacked and in my own home state of Ohio, a conservative religious group has had numerous commercials attacking DeWine for his being a part of the compromise. In other words these Republicans are being punished for doing something that was the right thing to do. Since that time it appears none of them are willing to risk another visit to the woodshed.

Same scenario with Voinivich, he's been attacked by his own for having a problem with Bolton. DeWine and Voinivich work for me, they don't work for the Republican Party. To many of us don't make this clear and we continue to allow this Party first bs to happen when in the end whether you are a Republican, Democrat, Independent, etc., this hurts us all.

If they truly felt Rogers-Brown was a poor candidate as some of us do then she shouldn't have been on the table if they didn't have a promise that there would not be enough votes for her to pass -- sure agree to the ones that in reality while not ideal from a Democrat Party Standard could be worse....but don't whine about it not working out the way you thought when you allowed it to happen.