History Behind Closed Doors

There is a fascinating article from the AP on the talks that eventually ended threats to eliminate the minority's right to use the filibuster to halt voting on extremist judges.

Here is a blurb:

"The crucial negotiating sessions took place around a coffee table in the memento-filled inner sanctum of Sen. John McCain's office. A small glass bust of Theodore Roosevelt, one of the Arizona Republican's heroes, gazed down from the mantle."

This was a major coup for McCain and a very public misstep by the other presidential hopeful Frist. However, let us not diminish the historical importance of what McCain and the other 13 senators accomplished in these meetings. Whether or not McCain was trying to acheive a power-grab is largely irrelevent because good work was accomplished in the process.

This is more evidence that what I have been saying privately to friends for months about McCain is true: If he runs for President he will win. The only thing that can stop him now are those on the radical right, and they will most certainly try.

Posted by Paul Hina at May 28, 2005 02:23 PM