Linda Chavez: The deal

Linda Chavez doesn't buy into the wailing coming from some quarters. From a May 25, 2005, column at Townhall.com:

Many conservatives are unhappy with the judicial confirmation compromise reached on Monday among Senate moderates of both political parties, but I'm not one of them. In the short run, this agreement will lead to the confirmation of more conservative Bush nominees to the federal bench; and in the long run, it will preserve the ability of conservatives in some future Democrat-controlled Congress to stop the appointment of radical judicial activists by a Democrat president. As in any compromise, neither side got all that it wanted, but conservatives clearly came out ahead...