I love Paris in the spring time

Yes, I was back watching C-Span 2 on Thursday. Not every tortured minute but a lot of it.

Dkos has the story on Santorum’s completely mystifying statement in which he compared the Democrats to Hitler occupying Paris and seems the Republicans are coming to bomb and liberate it? Talkleft provides Sanoturm’s attempt to somehow clarify the remark.

“My point was that it is preposterous for someone to trample a well-established principle, and then accuse his opponents of acting unlawfully when they try to reestablish that principle,” Santorum said. “Nevertheless, it was a mistake and I meant no offense.”

Well, what can I say but I’m glad that was clarified!

Talk Left has a story that gives Frist invoking cloture this morning and what will happen if the cloture vote fails and what will happen if a compromise that’s being apparently engineered by 12 of the senators succeeds. More on the compromise also at Talkleft.

C’mon, Reid. No compromise. No compromise. Ah–and I hope I’m wrong–but I feel like it’s Peter Pan appearing to Wendy after she’s an adult but it’s a done deal, no going back. Like when an airliner goes down in the sea and families of the lost are on the news saying, “We know you’re out there, we’re going to bring you home,” but you know it’s a done deal. Like when you inward whisper, “I wish, I wish, I wish, oh please,” but whatever it is you’re wishing against you know is a done deal, but you wish anyway until the impulse to wish is done as well.

If there is compromise today, was it all just a Bad Cop, Good Cop floor show. (Note: After the petition for cloture, takes two days to “ripen”, while the Senate is in session, before a vote. My bad saying “today”. Get to angst for another few days over how I’m going to spend the next how many years angsting. I know I’ll be angsting. Just how.)

Talkleft gives the news that Pat Buchanan confirms it’s about putting radical right evangelicals, not Republicans, in control of the Supreme Court.

But we knew that already. We knew it. Why do we need Pat Buchanan’s confirmation?

Eyes to see, ears to hear, a brain to discern. We knew that. I don’t need someone with a name to confirm it for me. We know what it’s about.

We want to get back to business with our committees, the Repubs kept saying yesterday, you’re wasting our time.