Originally Posted by kane

sorry but you are mostly wrong.

yes the congress is there to check the president so that he can't just sign whatever he wants into law. But when the majority of the congress is repub and the president is repub then basically that makes this check non-existant. The check is in place to allow that the minority has a voice. if there are 99 repubs and 1 dem ( or reversed ) and that 1 lone senetor fillibusters so that he can be heard, then he must be heard and some kind of a concession must be at least approached. That is what happened here. The dems have offered to basically approve 3 of these judges in exchange for the some give on the repub side. But the repubs what it all or none.

We are allowing the senetors we elected to do thier job. I'm from a state that elected democrats. That would mean they are representing a more liberal constiuancy and by fighting against the current majority they are doing exactly what we elected them to do..

Just because you are the minority does not mean you should be voiceless.